Locating Self-advocacy in Models of Disability: Understanding disability in the support of self-advocates with learning difficulties
@article{Goodley1997LocatingSI,
title={Locating Self-advocacy in Models of Disability: Understanding disability in the support of self-advocates with learning difficulties},
author={Dan Goodley},
journal={Disability \& Society},
year={1997},
volume={12},
pages={367-379}
}Recent appraisals of self-advocacy groups of people with learning difficulties have tended to focus on the constitutional and structural facets of groups whilst failing to explicitly engage with di...
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