New Home in the Community

For someone with a learning disability, leaving a long stay hostel or hospital to go to a group home can be rather a frightening experience. Designed to help people with learning disabilities make a happy transition to a new home. Not only will the house be much smaller, but many jobs previously done by staff have to be shared out. Simon goes through all the traumas and thrills of getting ready to move. He likes his new home, but not everything is rosy. He makes mistakes and has quarrels, but he discovers that people care and understand, and want to help him feel at home. He has to start doing things for himself for the first time. He discovers that his new friends are there to helpHollins, Sheila is the author of 'New Home in the Community', published 1993 under ISBN 9781874439028 and ISBN 1874439028.