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Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Wertheimer, Alison
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: In the current financial climate and with an inheritance of large hospitals situated mainly outside London, the development of local services presents a major challenge to health and local authorities. This paper has been prepared in five sections: (1) National policy developments in learning difficulties in the 1980s; (2) Information ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Wertheimer, Alison
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: TASH is the Association for the Severely Handicapped in the U.S.A. The aim of their 8th annual conference was to think about how everyone, including those with the most severe handicaps, can be fully involved in life in the community. Three main themes were dealt with at the conference: the ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Webb, Adrian
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: In late 1981, the DHSS published a study entitled 'Community Care' which examined some important issues in the development of community-based forms of care. The purpose of the study day was to discuss the document and to consider the policy implications for some of the issues it raised. Three themes ...

Créateur:: Ward, Linda and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: This account of recent developments in community based services for mentally handicapped people in this country derives from a study of available literature, focussing particularly on that published between 1975-1981. The main part of the report describes the kind of schemes and projects that have been developed to meet the ...

Créateur:: Heron, Alastair and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: The Sheffield Development Project arose from the thinking behind the 1971 White Paper "Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped", which was a government effort to provide clear leadership and a long-term strategy for the development of services for people with learning difficulties. The Sheffield Development Project has been a major ...

Créateur:: Firth, Hugh, King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Firth, Melinda
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: This discussion paper is about the provision of services for people with learning difficulties who may also be: blind or partially sighted; deaf or have partial hearing; physically disabled, epileptic, autistic, elderly, profoundly disabled or may show very disturbed behaviour at times. The paper deals with the philosophy or fundamental ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Blunden, Roger
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: There has been a growing interest in recent years in the Portage model, a system which helps parents to identify skills their pre-school children with learning difficulties could usefully learn, clarify these skills and break them down into steps small enough to teach these skills to their child. The service ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: The authors of this paper came together to study the development of comprehensive local residential services for mentally handicapped people. Although government policy had urged a move towards community-based services for mentally handicapped people, the numbers admitted to mental handicap hospitals for long-term care went up during the 1960s and ...

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