Stories
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Our Covid complicity
Athena Stevens thought she had a cold that she tried to ignore, but it turned out to be Covid-19. Here she reflects on how we have all put ourselves and others at risk with the choices we’ve made during this pandemic.
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Good animals, bad humans?
Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.
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Unmasking neurodivergent parenthood
Observing her eldest child’s neurodivergent traits and supporting his education set Erin Beeston wondering about her own ‘odd’ behaviour in childhood, and whether adult diagnosis could be empowering.
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
Catalogue
- Books
Intellectual disability : a conceptual history, 1200-1900 / edited by Patrick McDonagh, C.F. Goodey, and Tim Stainton.
Date: 2018- Books
Intellectual disability and dementia : research into practice / edited by Karen Watchman ; foreword by Diana Kerr.
Date: 2014- Books
Intellectual disability in the twentieth century : transnational perspectives on people, policy, and practice / edited by Jan Walmsley and Simon Jarrett.
Date: 2021- Books
Disability and the good human life / edited by Jerome E. Bickenbach, University of Lucerne, Switzerland ; Franziska Felder, University of Zurich, Switzerland ; Barbara Schmitz, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Date: 2014- Books
The incomplete child : an intellectual history of learning disabilities / Scot Danforth.
Danforth, Scot.Date: [2009], ©2009