your opinion on services

[Guest guest]

Surrey Place Centre

2 Surrey Place

Toronto, ON

M5S 2C2

July 12, 2005

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to you about the upcoming book

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ivan

Brown and Maire Percy (Editors) to be published by

H. in 2006. This is actually the third

edition of Developmental Disabilities, published in

1999 by Front Porch Publishing and in 2003 by the

Ontario Association on Developmental Disabilities. We

are seeking information about your personal or

professional opinions about what the future should

hold in the field of intellectual and related

disabilities to include in the last chapter of the

third edition.

We would like to learn about what you believe are the

current strengths and weaknesses in service, education

and/or research in the field of intellectual and/or

developmental disabilities, and your recommendations

or hopes for the future. We are looking for the

opinions of individuals with intellectual or

developmental disability or their advocates who have

received treatment or accessed services for

intellectual or developmental disabilities, as well as

the opinions of caregivers and clinical workers who

have provided such treatment or services, as well as

views from students and academics.

The book is primarily intended for students who are

becoming introduced to the topic of intellectual and

developmental disabilities. It includes chapters on

employment, educational, residential, public, medical,

and legal services for both children and adults with

intellectual and developmental disabilities, as well

as on other topics. We would appreciate your opinions

on any aspect of service, education and/or research in

the intellectual and developmental disabilities and

your recommendations for reform.

Please try to keep your comments to under 200 words.

Let us know if you wish the material to be anonymous

or if you should be credited by name. The information

that you provide may be used as a box in the chapter,

or be incorporated into the text. We look forward to

hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Rivka Birkan

Assistant to Ivan Brown and Maire Percy

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