| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | PLA/PPA/4/42 |
| Title | 'ACORN/opportunities groups' |
| Date | 1978-1988 |
| Description | Including;
conference report 'Opportunities grasped, working with parents', University of Manchester, September 1978. Conference covered playgroup provision for children with disabilities, and other specialised needs. Reports include 'A new approach to the care of handicapped children', stories of groups set up for children with disabilities that were closed down in various areas, 'Day to day handling of some children with movement disorder or delay', 'Development in the young downs syndrome child'.
Notes from discussion groups include comment on provision for children who are deaf, socially deprived, non-communicating, autistic, have spina bifida, are hyperactive, blind and partially sighted. Also 'subnormality' [people assumed to have learning disabilities] hospitals, and family violence.
'More opportunities' newsletter, summer 1982, issue no.8. Produced for people in Opportunity Groups, and those working with children with disabilities. A Pre-School Playgroup Association publication. Includes information relating to those working with, and parents of, disabled children, and an article on the back titled 'Do you remember the Warnock Committee'.
document defining 'Opportunity groups' - groups for children with disabilities, under the age of five.
'Acorn research project' PPA publication, 1990. An enquiry into the work being done by PPA members to support families facing disadvantage.
'The Acorn Report' 1988.
papers, memos and correspondence relating to the Acorn research project and report. |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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