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Book Review: Swimming for the Disabled

The authors have written this book because they felt the need for a text giving a comprehensive picture of services provided for mentally handicapped people. In the introductory chapters, they trace the problems in defining mental handicap and in finding out the exact number of handicapped people. They also give a vivid historical account of service provisions which briefly seem to run at 2 levels what is said and what is done seldom appear to be in agreement. They later discuss the development of various services residential, day care, assessment, voluntary families and financial in great depth and show contrasts between specific services throughout the country. They also quote examples of good practice, e.g. Wessex hostel provisions for the severely handicapped and practical problems such as the difficulties of obtaining allowances and benefits because of complex regulations. They also look at the structure of management and coordination of services which reveal many problems. The failure of the current system suggests that what is required is specific thinking on mental handicap alone particularly the way in which the services are organised.