Beautiful Lives: How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong: The startling and rarely told history of learning disabilities

Author: Stephen Unwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 For much of history, people with learning disabilities have been regarded as unworthy of interest - often seen as a threat to the social order and sometimes dismissed as barely human. While recent years have seen an improvement, learning-disabled people are still treated as fundamentally different. Beautiful Lives is a personal and pragmatic account, told through the eyes of a father whose son has severe learning disabilities. From early civilisation to...Read more