Janet wrote asking for help to discuss terminology re 'learning
difficultiy' vs 'learning disability'.
Valarie Sinason (a psychotherapist with a special interest in 'mental
handicap') has written extensively on the issue of terminology. How new
labels introduced with kindness..meant to leave behind old prejudice...soon
become the new terms of abuse. The issue was also raised in the last BBC
radio 4 programme on the English Language broadcast at the end of last week
with much the same conclusion.
Anyway, the Sinason reference is
Mental Handicap and the Human Condition; New Approaches for the Tavistock.
Valerie Sinason
1992 (though an updated version should be out by now)
Free Association Books Ltd London
She lists over 40 labels/terms of abuse used over the centuries for
...learning disability/dificulty.
Amaryllis
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