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        Liberal Individualism and Deleuzean Relationality in Intellectual Disability

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        Clegg, Jennifer
        Murray, Elizabeth
        Almack, Kathryn
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        2299/19748
        Abstract
        Successful critiques of health policies for people with impaired cognition identify a need for alternatives that go beyond individualism. ‘Choice’ policy was examined as young people with severe intellectual disabilities moved from special schools to adult services. We draw on three cases from a longitudinal cohort study to examine the way decisions with and for these young people were made and accounted for. It was not a simple matter of parents and transition workers hearing about these young people’s choices and facilitating what they wanted. The data raise questions about discourses of choice in ID when referring to people with severe intellectual disabilities: Few ‘choices’ could be considered informed nor made by young people with capacity to make them and many decisions were informed by other ethics. Findings were interpreted through a Deleuzean ethical–relational lens. We identify implications for theory and practice to show how Deleuzean thinking can reinvigorate intellectual disability.
        Publication date
        2017-12-31
        Published in
        Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
        Published version
        https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2017.0053
        License
        http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
        Other links
        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/19748
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