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Author Goodey, C. F., author.

Title Learning disability and inclusion phobia : past, present, future / C.F. Goodey.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Description 184 pages ; 24 cm.
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
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Series Routledge advances in the medical humanities
Routledge advances in the medical humanities.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Exclusion -- Intelligence -- Difference -- Causes -- Development -- Assessment -- The autism paradigm -- Autism in context.
Summary "The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes and day centres, and now to a currently emerging goal of "ordinary lives" for individuals using person-centred support and personal budgets. These approaches promise to replace a century and a half of "scientific" pathological models based on expert assessment, and of the accompanying segregated social administration which determined how and where people led their lives, and who they were. This...volume explains how concepts of learning disability, intellectual disability and autism first came about, describes their more recent evolution in the formal disciplines of psychology, and shows the direct relevance of this historical knowledge to present and future policy, practice and research. Goodey argues that learning disability is not a historically stable category and different people are considered "learning disabled" as it changes over time. Using psychological and anthropological theory, he identifies the deeper lying pathology as "inclusion phobia", in which the tendency of human societies to establish an in-group and to assign out-groups reaches an extreme point. Thus the disability we call "intellectual" is a concept essential only to an era in which to be human is essentially to be deemed intelligent, autonomous and capable of rational choice. Interweaving the author's historical scholarship with his practice-based experience in the field, Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia challenges myths about the past as well as about present-day concepts, exposing both the historical continuities and the radical discontinuities in thinking about learning disability." -- Publisher's description
Subject People with mental disabilities -- History.
Intellectual Disability -- history.
Intellectual Disability -- classification.
Education of Intellectually Disabled -- history.
Community Integration -- history.
Social Marginalization -- history.
Prejudice -- history.
People with mental disabilities. (OCoLC)fst01057383
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780415822008 (hbk)
0415822009 (hbk)
9780203556658 (ebk)

 
    
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