Valuing people with a learning disability

This book asks: what do we mean by valuing?; how does the process of valuing work?; what needs to happen to ensure that we value people with a learning disability? Each chapter introduces a particular area of theory and illustrates it with memorable stories from practice as well as examples from recent news and historic accounts. It covers: historic roles; metaphor and attribution; impression management; schemas, social representation and stereotypes; normalisation; social construction of disability; listening and talking; valuing in practice; the eugenics era and following instructions.