Parents Whose Children with Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviour Attend 52-week Residential Schools: Their Perceptions of Services Received and Expectations of the Future

Alan Tennyson is a Programme Supervisor with the RehabCare Group. He carried out this research during postgraduate study at the Tizard Centre. Peter McGill is Senior Lecturer in Learning Disability at the Tizard Centre. A clinical psychologist by training, he has previously held posts in the NHS, Social Services and the Voluntary sector. Vivien Cooper is the parent of a young man with severe learning disabilities and challenging behaviour and the founder of the Challenging Behaviour Foundation, an organisation established to provide information and support to families and others. She is currently a postgraduate student at the Tizard Centre.