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French, Sally – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2008
By means of documentary evidence and six in-depth interviews, this paper traces policy and practice relating to the education of visually impaired children with learning difficulties from 1900 to 1970. It reveals that if visually impaired children with learning difficulties were given an education at all, their needs were not usually met and they…
Descriptors: Oral History, Learning Problems, Visual Impairments, Educational History
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Hreinsdottir, Eyglo Ebba; Stefansdottir, Guorun; Lewthwaite, Anne; Ledger, Sue; Shufflebotham, Lindy – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2006
This paper uses oral history and documentary materials to develop a cross-cultural comparison of the experiences of two self-advocates who spent significant parts of their lives in learning difficulty institutions in England and Iceland. Anne Lewthwaite and Eyglo Ebba Hreinsdottir, born in the same era (1948-1950), were linked through the Open…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Advocacy, Cross Cultural Studies, Oral History