Normalization Fifty Years Beyond-Current Trends in the Nordic Countries

Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 134-146

  Tøssebro, Jan ^a   Bonfils, Inge S ^b   Teittinen, Antti ^c   Tideman, Magnus ^d   Traustadóttir, Rannveig ^e   Vesala, Hannu T ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Kehitysvammaliitto   (Finland)

^d HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Intellectual disability; Local autonomy; Nordic countries; Normalization; Service development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861940018     PISSN: 17411122     EISSN: 17411130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-1130.2012.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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