My Son with Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviour: Adapting to Meet his Needs

Abstract

Daniel was born on the 6th August 1985. Approximately two weeks later he was diagnosed as having cri du chat syndrome, a relatively rare genetic condition arising from the partial deletion of the short arm of chromosome 5. We were told that he would have severe learning difficulties, and we were handed a photocopied page of a reference book referring to a study carried out on institutionalised individuals with the syndrome, which painted a very bleak picture of his future. This paper is the story of what followed.

Citation

Cooper, V. (1999), "My Son with Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviour: Adapting to Meet his Needs", Tizard Learning Disability Review, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 13-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/13595474199900024