Deinstitutionalisation and Later Developments in the Lives of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities

Jan Tøssebro is Professor Emeritus at NTNU Social Research in Trondheim, Norway. He has published widely in areas such as disability policy, living conditions of disabled people, and inclusion. He has been a member of public committees on disability policy and chaired the Norwegian State Council on Disability. Anders Gustavsson is Professor Emeritus in Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has published widely in special education and the lived experiences of persons with intellectual disabilities. He has been guest professor at Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Jan Tøssebro and Anders Gustavsson).- Chapter 2. Normalisation 60 years beyond – the developments and current status in the Nordic countries (Jan Tøssebro, Inge S. Bonfils, Antti Teittinen, Magnus Tideman and Rannveig Traustadóttir).- Chapter 3. International ideas, ideologies and pioneers of disability reform (Rannveig Traustadóttir).- Chapter 4. Did the institutions really disappear? The Norwegian deinstitutionalisation reform in retrospect (Johans Tveit Sandvin).- Chapter 5. The symbolic power of residential architecture (Inge Storgaard Bonfils and Anne Kathrine Frandsen).- Chapter 6. New social roles and identifications (Anders Gustavsson).- Chapter 7. Living with intellectual disabilities in Sweden: individualisation, negotiation, local variation, categorisation and self-advocacy (Magnus Tideman).- Chapter 8. Housing services for persons with intellectual disabilities and recent structural changes in the Finnish welfare state (Antti Teittinen).- Chapter 9. Personal assistance for persons with intellectual disabilities – experiences and challenges in the Nordic welfare states (Ole Petter Askheim).- Chapter 10. Drivers of change in policies for persons with intellectual disabilities, 1960-2020 (Jan Tøssebro).- Chapter 11. Dignity - The result of the past and the challenge of the future (Mårten Söder).- Chapter 12. Progressing beyond institutional closure to a good life for people with intellectual disabilities – reflecting on the Nordic countries (Christine Bigby).- Chapter 13. Deinstitutionalising without disaffiliating, or how to preserve the power to act. (Isabelle Ville-Ravaud).- Chapter 14. Editors’ reflections (Anders Gustavsson and Jan Tøssebro).