Home at Last: How Two Young Women with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Achieved Their Own Home
Author:   Carol OBrien ,  Pat Fitton ,  Jean Willson ,  Jean Willson
Publisher:   Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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9781853022548


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 April 1995
Format:   Paperback
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Home at Last: How Two Young Women with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Achieved Their Own Home


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Author:   Carol OBrien ,  Pat Fitton ,  Jean Willson ,  Jean Willson
Publisher:   Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Imprint:   Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781853022548


ISBN 10:   1853022543
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 April 1995
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Foreword. 1. Katherine Sirockin. 2. Victoria Willson. 3. Return to Islington. 4. On the move again. 5. The Idea. 6. Setting up home together. 7. Paying for the new home. 8. Support at home. 9. Community involvement. 10. A week in the life of…11. Bereavement and replacement. 12. Successes and difficulties. 13. Lessons learned. Appendices: A. The Care Package. B. The operational policy. C. Welfare benefits. D. The household budget. E. The care books. F. The house book. G. Plan of the bungalow.

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Pat Fitton's experience of profound and multiple disabilities comes from caring for her daughter Kathy, who died in 1991 at the age of twenty-seven. She has worked in several parents' groups to improve services and has campaigned to increase parental participation in planning procedures in social services and health. She has taught in inner London secondary schools since 1964 and has been involved with the integration into mainstream of children with a range of disabilities. Jean Willson's experience comes from caring for her daughter Victoria. She does consultancy work on a range of issues connected with learning disabilities, and works both locally and nationally to improve services for people with profound multiple disabilities and their carers. Carol O' Brien has been involved in developing community-based services and projects for people with disabilities, and as a freelance consultant has worked with parents and other professionals to set up a house in Camden similar to Victoria's and Kathy's.

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