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Listen to Me: Communicating the Needs of People With Profound and Multiple Disabilities
Pat Fitton
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Description for Listen to Me: Communicating the Needs of People With Profound and Multiple Disabilities
Paperback. This book is written for those who have responsibilities for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. It considers how to cope with the complex problems of someone with this level of disability, interpret their needs, and maintain effective contact with all the professionals and organisations who deal with them. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFZ; JFFG; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 2. Weight in Grams: 384.
Written for parents, carers and professionals who have responsibilities for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, Listen to Me focuses on two crucial issues:
- How to cope with the complex problems of someone with this level of disability, interpret their needs successfully, and maintain effective contact with all the professionals and organisations who deal with them.
- How to enrich that person's experience and ensure that others value him or her as a distinct individual with a right to a meaningful life.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Pub
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853022449
SKU
V9781853022449
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Pat Fitton
Pat Fitton's experience of profound and multiple disabilities comes from caring for her daughter Kathy, who died in 1991 at the age of twenty-seven. She has worked in several parents' groups to improve services and has campaigned to increase parental participation in planning procedures in social services and health. She has taught in inner London secondary schools since 1964 and ... Read more
Reviews for Listen to Me: Communicating the Needs of People With Profound and Multiple Disabilities
This book would be of great value to all who have contact with a person with profound and multiple learning disabilities. Apart from the insight into the needs from the person's and carers' point of view, it provides a wealth of information including useful addresses and further references that may be of value.
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