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Stephen A. Richardson, David May, David Hughes And James Hogg
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Learning Disabilities Archive

  • RU 857
  • Collection
  • c 1970 - c 1990s
Includes cassette tapes of subject interviews, transcripts, questionnaires, articles and research data.This material relates to several key research projects undertaken to explore intellectual disability, looking specifically at the issue from the perspective of adolescents and young adults. The first of these projects related to the Aberdeen Learning Disabilities Cohort dataset and was completed by S. A. Richardson in 1972-1977. The second was called the Tayside Special Education School-Leavers project and was completed by May and Hughes in the 1980s. The final project, Experiencing Adulthood, was undertaken by May and Hogg and completed in the 1990s. More detail about these projects can be found in RU 857/4.

Stephen A. Richardson, David May, David Hughes And James Hogg

Includes a number of completed ABS Schedules.

ABS Schedules: YA: 100101;100102;100114;100124 110102;110109; 140119; 120105; 120109;130104;130105; 130106; 130107; 130124; ABS Schedules: MA 200011; 210019; 220014; 220103; 230007; 230012; 240009; 240037; 250028; 240008; 240025; 240101; 250005; 250034; 250043; 250106; ABS Schedules: OA 300102; 300103; 300105; 320103; 330107; 350111 Day Centre Key Worker Schedules

Stephen A. Richardson, David May, David Hughes And James Hogg

Papers relating to the Tayside Special Education School-Leavers project carried out by May and carried out by May and Hughes.

This study was carried out in the early 1980s of the experience of school-leaving by pupils in Special Education from Tayside. The research adopted an ethnographic approach. Extensive participant observation by several field workers was carried out in schools, colleges, hospital wards, adult training centres and other institutions over a two year period yielding several volumes of field-notes. In addition almost 300 wide-ranging, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the young people themselves, their parents, and the many professionals (teachers, care workers, careers officers, social workers, nurses) involved in the leaving process, all of which are fully transcribed. c 33 were residents of Strathmartine

Stephen A. Richardson, David May, David Hughes And James Hogg

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