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Moving out: an opportunity for friendship and broadening social horizons?
Author(s) -
JAHODA A.,
CATTERMOLE M.,
MARKOVA I.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1990.tb01523.x
Subject(s) - friendship , psychology , developmental psychology , gerontology , social psychology , medicine
. The study investigated the changes in social activities and social network of people with mild learning difficulties who moved from family home and from a long‐stay hospital to live more independently in the cummunity, Twenty‐five people with a learning difficulty, 12 mothers and 33 members of stuff participated in this siudy based on interviews before and alter the move to the community. It was found that people with a learning difficulty participated in more comrminity‐bascd activities after the move but they had very few opportunities to meet non‐handicapped people, Their segregation remained a main source of dissatisfaction with their social life.