Cut-off: how we spent our time in a residential school.

· This article is about children and care staff in a boarding school for children with physical disabilities and mild learning disabilities in the1960s. · The story is told by three women who worked as assistant housemothers at the school when they were young. They explain how the children and care...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 112 - 120
Autor principal: French S
Formato: pictorial research Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2010
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