A Working Community for Mentally Handicapped Adults
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SEVEN miles from Aberdeen, on the lovely road to Braemar, lies the Newton Dee Estate, recognised by the Ministry of Labour as a sheltered workshop for the mentally handicapped. There is a fundamental difference between it and most other "sheltered workshops," for it is a social experiment, and all who are there not only share the working life, but live together as a really integrated village community. The aim of that community is to provide facilities where the mentally handicapped adult can find the security of family life and the satisfaction of doing a job of work in a normal, healthy social background.
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