Trends Affecting Designs for Service

The architect-author calls for the re-examination of many of the basic assumptions made by those involved in designing the delivery of services to handicapped persons. He contrasts the old mechanical, linear, fragmented approach in planning with the emerging trends toward simultaneity, inter-involvement, sensitivity, awareness, and fulfillment. Normalization, as a proper goal of services, is fully discussed along with the ways in which agencies, decision-makers, professionals, and parents block its realization.