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Inclusion of Older Adults with Mental Retardation in Leisure Opportunities

Including aging people with intellectual disability in community leisure options can bring about increased opportunities and personal empowerment.

Merging Interests: Aging and Persons with and without developmental disabilities

"Today, institutionalisation as an elderly person increases for us all as we age, not just for persons with developmental disabilities. The struggle to sustain a sense of worth. . . results in a merging of interests of both groups in old age".

One Family's Viewpoint on Human Services

Matthew Ellis is a young man with high support needs.

Tool Kit for Advocacy: a human rights framework for persons with disabilities

The title says it all! This is an excellent tool kit for families, people with disabilities and all those wanting to create change for people with disabilities.

Developing Inclusive School Communities - strategies for parents

This book offers valuable and practical advice to both parents and teachers who support inclusive education. It draws on the experience of parents and teachers, and is interspersed with personal quotations.

Captives of Care

This is John Roarty's personal account of his struggle for the right of people with disabilities in institutions to be treated as responsible members of the community. When John Roarty entered Weemala ( Royal Rehabilitation Centre) at the age of sixteen, he came face to face with deprivation.

Normalisation and 'Normal' Ageing: the social construction of dependency among older people with learning difficulties

The authors argue that many service providers are creating additional barriers to the social integration (inclusion) of people with intellectual disabilities through inappropriate age stereotyping and discrimination.

The positive impact of children with an intellectual disability on the family

This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study on the positive impacts of children with an intellectual disability on their families.

On Campus, A Canadian case study: people with an intellectual disability on campus

The On Campus program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada is a small, flexible program which provides adults with an intellectual disability with the opportunity to be part of the university. The focus of the program is on social integration and inclusion.

The Experience of Handicap

At the time of writing the author was a Senior Lecturer in Special Education at the University of Liverpool. It is written for professionals involved with people with disability and their families.