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Enabling Partnerships: Making them Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Barry Carpenter
Barry Carpenter*
Affiliation:
Sunfield West Midlands, United Kingdom
*
Address for: Professor Bany Carpenter, Director, Centre for the Study of Special Education, Westminster College, OXFORD OX2 9AT United Kingdom. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

Defining the Family: “Paul is our son. We love him and we wanted him to have an ordinary life. Not much to ask for, an ordinary life ‐ but it can seem as distant as the moon when you are struggling to live with challenging behaviour.” A mother, quoted in the Mental Health Foundation Report (1997)

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Research Article
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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 23 , Issue 2-3 , 1999 , pp. 128 - 140
Copyright
Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1999

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