Parents, professionals, and mentally handicapped people: Approaches to partnership

by Peter J. Mittler

Hardcover. Ex-library, with library labels on spine foot of dust jacket, front pastedown and front endpaper. Library stamps on front endpaper and at several further points. Cellophane wrapper over dust jacket is torn and grubby in places. Minor penned and pencilled marginalia at one or two points. Binding is sound. Text is clear. AF

243 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1983

About the author

Professor Peter Mittler CBE has spent a lifetime committed to the human rights of people with intellectual disabilities.

Mittler is one of the world’s most respected and eminent scholars of the field of special needs and inclusive education. He was appointed Professor of Special Needs Education at the University of Manchester in 1973, becoming Dean of the Faculty from 1991 until his retirement in 1994. Internationally, he has been involved in consultancy and advisory work in disability, inclusive education and staff development for the United Nations, UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO and ILO. Since retirement, he has been Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Hong Kong (1997-8).