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Abstract
1 INTRODUCTION This chapter is concerned with research from Norway and Sweden about persons with developmental impairments and the services they receive. Most research has been related to national reform efforts, particularly in the field of mental retardation, and attempts to evaluate these reforms. Research has, however, not been limited to narrow evaluative questions, but also more fundamental ones about past and present aspirations and patterns, nature of social relations and welf..