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Learning disability: care models and individual experience.

Disability care, support and services have been influenced by two major models over the past three decades: medical and social. This article, the second in this series, will focus on what it means to have a learning disability by discussing the two philosophies and how they are applied. It will also...

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Published in:British Journal of Healthcare Assistants Vol. 5; no. 5; pp. 226 - 229
Main Author: Barber, Chris
Format: case study pictorial Journal Article
Published: Mark Allen Holdings Limited May2011
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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          Intellectual Disability Psychosocial Factors
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