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The background to this
project is the broad variation one will find when one looks into
services to and welfare of persons with intellectual disability in
Europe. Research can contribute to describe and compare, maybe also to
explain, these differences. With strategically chosen projects living
conditions of persons can be highlighted and developed.
IDRESNET has established a
European network of reseachers in issues concerning the field of
intellectual disability, to be able to initiate projects based on a
European perspective. As the first step in the work of this network a
comparison is being made of issues concerning intellectual disability
and services to these persons in seven countries. A project describing
services and conditions of lives has also been formulated. For
a more extensive presentation, visit
Canterbury.
Researchers from seven
universities make up this network:
Jim Mansell, University of Kent
at Canterbury, England (visit)
Kent Ericsson, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden (visit)
Geert van Hoove, Universiteit Gent, Belgium (visit)
Susana Padeliadu, Aristotele University of Thessaloniki, Greece (visit)
Luis Salvador-Carulla, Universidad Cádiz, Spain (visit)
Johannes Schädler, Universität-Gesamthochschule Siegen, Germany (visit)
Carla Vlaskamp, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands (visit)
The network meets every
half-year to work with the papers which have been produced during the
recent period. Meetings
have been held in Siegen (Germany), Barcelona (Spain) and Ghent
(Belgium). The work from these meetings have been reported by the group
from Siegen (visit).
The content has up until now focused on the preparation of the
first comparative report, published in 2003: Intellectual Disability in
Europe: Working papers (contents).
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