Valuing Tom: will Valuing People Now change the lives of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities?

Tizard Learning Disability Review

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 3-12

  Dawkins, Beverley ^a  

^a and Chair of the PMLD Network ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiple disability; Policy; Profound disability; Valuing people

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953172638     PISSN: 13595474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13595474200900032     Document Type: Article

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