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THE CROYDON WORKSHOP FOR THE PARENTS OF SEVERELY HANDICAPPED SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN
Author(s) -
ATTWOOD TONY
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1979.tb00122.x
Subject(s) - attendance , multidisciplinary team , evening , multidisciplinary approach , psychology , medical education , variety (cybernetics) , developmental psychology , pedagogy , medicine , nursing , sociology , social science , computer science , political science , physics , astronomy , artificial intelligence , law
Summary A multidisciplinary team of professionals met the parents of 18 severely handicapped children for a series of 10 evening sessions. All children were between 5 and 11 years of age and included six Downs, six non‐communicating and six children with rare syndromes or no known diagnosis. The professionals provided practical advice and counselling. They did not adopt one exclusive approach such as behaviour modification, but employed a variety of ideas drawn from several theories of learning and from personal experience. The workshop was well received by both parents and professionals, with an average attendance of 80%. The paper also discusses some of the organizational problems of parent workshops.