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Encouraging understanding of difference

In Uncategorized on February 28, 2009 at 6:28 am

Here’s a piece from today’s BBC website about attempts to offer positive representations and increased understanding of mental health problems to teenagers.

We used The Curious Incident… as an example of a text that makes an intervention into how disability and mental health (or just perceived “weirdness”) might be represented, and this article could be a helpful complementary text.