Parents, politics and the public purse : activists in the special education arena in Germany.

By: Barbara Sherman Heyl.
Series: Disability & Society 13 (5) Nov 1998: 683-708.Publisher: 1998Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): CHILDREN | ADVOCACY | GERMANY | INTEGRATION | INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY | PARENTAL STRATEGIESSummary: 15/12/1998Summary: Using a 'social interest' approach, this paper details the advocacy strategies of parents of children with disabilities in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1980's. Parents developed grass-roots organisations begining in the 1970's in the former West Germany in response to the stigma and isolation of the well developed system of Sonder-schulen (Special Schools). Parent groups described here include both those with children already in Sonderschulen working to ensure its promise of special help for their children and those working to bypass the sonderschule system by establishing model intergration programs in the general schools. [AJ].
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15/12/1998

Using a 'social interest' approach, this paper details the advocacy strategies of parents of children with disabilities in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1980's. Parents developed grass-roots organisations begining in the 1970's in the former West Germany in response to the stigma and isolation of the well developed system of Sonder-schulen (Special Schools). Parent groups described here include both those with children already in Sonderschulen working to ensure its promise of special help for their children and those working to bypass the sonderschule system by establishing model intergration programs in the general schools. [AJ].

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