Fostering and Mental Handicap

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Wing Olsen , op cit.

The Journal of Social Welfare Law, January 1980, page 57.

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Anne Craft Michael , Sex and the mentally handicapped, 1978, Routledge and Kegan Paul.

‘Growing up with mental handicap’, BASW Sussex Weald Branch, day conference 29 April, 1980.

CARE magazine (1979/1980), pp 17–18.

Mittler Peter , People not patients, 1979, Methuen.

Olsen Rolf (editor), Differential approaches in social work with the mentally disordered, 1976, BASW publications, page 88.

My experience doing a guardian ad litem interview with a 10-year-old mentally handicapped boy, using models and paintings, convinced me that a severely retarded child's wishes can be and should be taken very much into account.