Conference 1998

Confronting language: labels in the history of learning disabilities

30th November 1998 at The Open University, Milton Keynes

(Please note: there are no abstracts or presentations available for this 2004 conference. However, we hope that the list of presentation titles below will give a flavour of the day's talks.)

Morning session

• Confronting language
  Mabel Cooper, Gloria Ferris and Mark Jackson
• Who invented the labels?
  Chris Goodley
• What language should we use?
  Workshops

Afternoon session

• People with learning disabilities: damned with faint praise
  Paul Dumbleton
• The burdens: missionaries in the hopeless
  Peter Carpenter
• Exploring work and income
  Ann Davis
• Constructing difference: ideas, institutions and policies
  David Gladstone