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Best Practices for Inclusion

In 1996 the Province of New Brunswick introduced legislation based on equity in education for all students, stressing individual needs-based programming for all students with special needs. This article, reprinted in Entourage (Fall/Winter 1988), outlines the beliefs and principles on which best practices for inclusion are based.

In Re a Teenager. Judgement in case heard in Family Court of Aus.

The case was heard before Mr Justice Cook in l988. The question before the Court was whether the parents' decision that a hysterectomy be performed on their daughter was in her best interest and should be allowed to proceed.

Technology, Resources and Consumer Outcomes

The Foreword states the Conference was held at a time of the emergence of a "new consumerism" in the intellectual diability field - "In the l980's disabled consumers themselves have entered the arena and the new debate centres on the type of service and the right to choose".

Project Employment Monographs 1986-87

The papers deal with issues relating to needs of people with intellectual disability who seek Open Employment and those who will continue in the "context of supported employment". The first of the papers was made possible by a grant from the Division of the Intellectually Handicapped, Health Department, W.

Menstrual Management and Fertility Management for Women who have an Intellectual Disability; An Analysis of Australian Policy.

A project funded through a Commonwealth R & D grant to the Department of Social Work and Social Policy, Univ. Queensland. The paper includes a literature search. The paper's aim is to develop information and resources. The introduction states that "debate is currently occurring. . .

ACCESS '93. Inclusion in Life. Reports from the Conference held 7-9 March '93, Brisbane

A collection of reports by parent participants who attended the Conference.

The Politics of Mental Handicap

An historical and theoretical analysis of the development and rationale of care policies and service types in Great Britain. Frank Thomas was a care worker in hospitals and schools in the 70's, and Joanna Ryan is a researcher and psychologist.

Facing the Crowd. Managing other people's insensitivities to your disabled child.

The book is written primarily for parents of children with a disability. Other people - relatives, friends, teachers, neighbours, members of the community, may knowingly or unknowingly express insensitive attitudes about their child.

Some of the universal "Good Things of Life" which the implementation of Social Role Valorization can be expected to make more accessible to devalued people

The article begins by looking at some of the challenges people make to Social Role Valorisation (SRV).

The Long Journey Home

Lee Keatch is the mother of Natalie, a young woman with severe intellectual and multiple disabilities.