Offering choices to people with intellectual disabilities: an interactional study
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Offering choices to people with intellectual disabilities: an interactional study.
BACKGROUND At the level of policy recommendation, it is agreed that people with intellectual impairments ought to be given opportunities to make choices in their lives; indeed, in the UK, the Mental Capacity Act of 2005 enshrines such a right in law. However, at the level of practice, there is a dearth of evidence as to how choices are actually offered in everyday situations, which must hinder ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0964-2633,1365-2788
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2008.01101.x