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Voices from the past: early institutional experience of children with disabilities--the case of Scotland.
- Source :
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Pediatric Rehabilitation . Jan-Mar2005, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p67-77. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- In the countries of the western world, the institutional option for confining and endeavouring to 'correct' traits and attributes of people who did not conform to a rising consciousness of 'normalcy' developed rapidly during the 19th century. Scotland, a small, but rapidly urbanizing and industrializing country on the edge of Europe, was not an exception, but in its adoption of the institutional option for children with disabilities, its responses and objectives to different forms of impairment followed an uneven path. This article considers the reason for this erratic response, and the varied objectives of those responses, in the context of different forms of impairment and the differing interests of those with a professional or philanthropic involvement. The responses of some of the children directly affected are also considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CHILDREN with disabilities
*URBANIZATION
*INDUSTRIALIZATION
WESTERN countries
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13638491
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Pediatric Rehabilitation
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16071640
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13638490410001727455