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Intellectual disabilities: improving access to therapeutic communities
Author(s) -
Shaddel Farshad,
Ghazirad Marjan,
Banerjee Subimal,
Newrith Christopher
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.453
Subject(s) - mainstream , set (abstract data type) , internet privacy , order (exchange) , universal design , duty , intellectual disability , business , computer science , psychology , political science , world wide web , psychiatry , law , finance , programming language
Access to specialised therapeutic communities (TCs) for people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) such as ‘Camphill communities’ and ‘TCs plus’ is limited and patchy in the UK. Nonetheless, the emphasis for some time now has been to enable people with IDs to access mainstream services, which have a legal duty to make reasonable adjustments to facilitate this. Here, the authors propose a set of recommendations in order to improve the access of people with ID to mainstream therapeutic communities and enhance the services they receive.