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Switzerland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sara Heer
Sara Heer*
Affiliation:
Sonderpädagogin, Vereinigung Cerebral Schweiz (Cerebral Palsy Association Switzerland), email sara.heer@vereinigung-cerebral.ch
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Abstract

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In Switzerland, most adults with intellectual disability live in institutions. By the end of the 19th century some institutions had been founded, most of them in a Christian context. Over the last 10 years, autonomy (independent living) and integration/inclusion have become issues. From 1980, when individuals with intellectual disabilities left psychiatric hospitals, several smaller residential units were set up (Heer, 2005).

Type
Thematic Paper — European Perspectives on Intellectual Disability
Information
International Psychiatry , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 8 - 9
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2008

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