ABSTRACT
'Accentuate
the positive: a personal profile of a parent with learning difficulties'
Wendy Booth and Tim Booth
Disability, Handicap and Society,
8(4), 1993, pp. 377-392
This paper uses
case material from a research study of parents with learning
difficulties to show why parental competence can only be assessed
in the context of people's lives and upbringing. Drawing on the
ideas of Futures Planning, a distinction is made between a 'deficiency
perspective' and a 'capacity perspective' on personal development.
These two perspectives are applied to the analysis of the personal
profile of a parent with learning difficulties. The results present
a challenge to the presumption of incompetence that often informs
the professional response to parenting by people with learning
difficulties.
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