Forgotten Lives - Exploring the History of Learning Disability

by Dorothy Atkinson

Explores the history of people with a learning disability. It uses first hand accounts from people with learning difficulties, documentary evidence, photographs and archive sources. The book also looks at how to conduct small scale research in the field of learning disability and the relationship between the past and the present, especially how attitudes from the past have helped inform and underpin attitudes and practice today.

155 pages, Paperback

First published January 10, 1998