Vuxenliv med funktionshinder : En studie om unga vuxna med lindrig utvecklingsstörning

Sammanfattning: This study focuses on young adults with mild mental retardation and how their early adult life is a few years after leaving high school. They have grown up in a society where the view on mentally disabled has undergone big changes. Political decisions regarding handicapped, laws, official principles and social reforms have been dominated by the prinziple of normalization. The purpose has been to describe how the young adults themselves experience their life. The questions were: How is the every day life for young adults with mild mental retardation? Do they have asset to community support in order to reach as normal life as possible? How satisfied are they with their life? The investigation is a quality study through interviews with four young adults and their parents. The interviews were based upon the conditions of the functional deficit and earlier experience of research on the subject. The result showed that the young adults themselves were relatively satisfyed with their adult life. Those who worked also had reached a life that appeared normal from the outside. None of them had applied for support according to LSS. The interviews showed that many lived a pretty lonely life with few contacts outside the family and limited leisure activities.