What about challenging academia and the sacrosanct preserve of disability
studies then?
Larry
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> Subject: Re: dual diagnosis - learning disabilities and mental illness
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> To add to Keith's point about challenging behaviour - could I add
> three more potential definitions
> of challenging behaviour:
> - a resistant act to disabling and oppressive institutions
> - a social construction created by a whole host of specialist
> professions - particularly psychology
> - a phenomenon that has kept a lot of professionals and academics in work
>
>
> Has always struck me how people with learning difficulties are
> not allowed to
> be 'bad' (whatever that means) without it being given a label of
> challenging behaviour.
>
> all the best
>
>
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