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Paradigms in Intellectual Disability: Compare, Contrast, Combine
Author(s) -
Burton Mark,
Sanderson Helen
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1468-3148
pISSN - 1360-2322
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3148.1998.tb00033.x
Subject(s) - complementarity (molecular biology) , contrast (vision) , relation (database) , intellectual disability , epistemology , psychology , cognitive science , sociology , cognitive psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , genetics , database , psychiatry , biology
Four relatively distinct traditions in work with people with intellectual disability are identified: ordinary living/normalisation, functional, behavioural and developmental. These approaches are analysed as paradigms which could be incompatible or compatible. The paradigms are explored in relation to a profoundly disabled man, whose case illustrates the complementarity of these approaches. It is suggested that the ordinary living paradigm is best seen as a basic guide to direction with the other paradigms feeding into it to help chiefly with implementation. However, the possibility is raised that rather than the co‐existence of different paradigms, what is really being sought here is a new and super‐ordinate paradigm that still awaits its full development.