It would appear that, in the "brave new world", post ICF (the new WHO
version of the ICIDH), we are no closer to having any clarity about people
receiving support on the basis of need, much of which is determined by
social circumstances rather than individiual charactersitics relating to IQ
or supposed diagnoses. The divide between mental health problems and
intellectual disability has always, post institutionalisation, been
determined by which branch of government or non-government services are
required to support people with which impairment lable. I'm not altogether
surprised, but is anyone putting pressure on the ICF advocates (see the
debates almost a decade ago) and the promises made at the time that this
would provide consistency to the way we understood and responded to
disability issues worldwide?
Michael Bleasdale
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From: "Hazel Frost" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 2:18 AM
Subject: Re: Man's IQ 'too high' for treatment
> This is not unusual, when I was working in the UK, I was advocating for a
> guy with an autistic spectrum disorder where the learning disability
> nurses weren't "allowed" to work with him because he had an IQ of two
> points above their cutoff threshold, and the mental health team wouldn't
> work with him because they said he should come under learning
> disabilities. Personally I couldn't quite believe that someone's entire
> service entitlement should be based on the IQ in the first place, since in
> my own training we had been taught that IQ testing is largely discredited.
>
> Hazel
>
>
>
> On 8 Jun 2007, at 12:57, Colin REvell wrote:
>
>> Man's IQ 'too high' for treatment
>>
>> A man who suffers from a form of autism has had his treatment withdrawn
>> because his IQ is too high.
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/6731267.stm
>>
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