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An exploration of the impact of institutionalization in the lives of Canadian families.

Intellectual disability is often overlooked within mainstream disability studies, and theories developed about disability and physical impairment may not always

Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Fee

Examines the changing lives of people with intellectual disabilities in Western Australia and the institutions, political decisions, ideologies and occupations