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  • Title: The end of mentally handicapped childhood: problems of residential transfer and school leaving during adolescence.
    Author: Woolf PG.
    Journal: Child Care Health Dev; 1975; 1(3):167-77. PubMed ID: 1222490.
    Abstract:
    The evolution of two hospital units for mentally handicapped children is contrasted with two special boarding schools which each have radically different discharge procedures at adolescence. Two communities organized so as to obviate the need for adolescent transfer are discussed. Problems at adolescence highlight the interdependence of educational and social services for the handicapped. It is shown how isolated developments in residential provision may create as many problems as they are intended to solve. The difficulty of reconciling expediency with educational and humanitarian aims is discussed.
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