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Positive approaches to learning disability : a workbook to support the Certificates in Working with People who have Learning Disabilities

By: Bradley, Alice.
Publisher: Kidderminster BILD 2002Description: 114 p.ISBN: 1904082017.Subject(s): INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY | HUMAN DEVELOPMENT | ETHICS | ATTITUDES | EMPOWERMENT | LABELS | STEREOTYPES | PHILOSOPHY | THEORY | SOCIAL ATTITUDES | SOCIETYSummary: Focuses on helping staff to understand society's view of, and response to, people with an intellectual disability. Outlines the process of human development and the changes in the knowledge and understanding of intellectual disability over the years. Examines how society's perceptions of, and behaviour towards people with an intellectual disability may disable them much more than the impairment. Shows staff how to look at the person, not the disability.
List(s) this item appears in: Resources for new support workers. May 2020 | Supporting PWD Jan 2021
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Focuses on helping staff to understand society's view of, and response to, people with an intellectual disability. Outlines the process of human development and the changes in the knowledge and understanding of intellectual disability over the years. Examines how society's perceptions of, and behaviour towards people with an intellectual disability may disable them much more than the impairment. Shows staff how to look at the person, not the disability.

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Interesting but lacks the Maori perspective she needed for her unit standard

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