Moving out: an opportunity for friendship and broadening social horizons?
- 28 June 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
- Vol. 34 (2) , 127-139
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.1990.tb01523.x
Abstract
The study investigated the changes in social activities and social networks of people with mild learning difficulties who moved from family home and from a long-stay hospital to live more independently in the community. Twenty-five people with a learning difficulty, 12 mothers and 33 members of staff participated in this study based on interviews before and after the move to the community. It was found that people with a learning difficulty participated in more community-based activities after the move but they had very few opportunities to meet non-handicapped people. Their segregation remained a main source of dissatisfaction with their social life.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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