ABSTRACT
What follows is a personal retrospective in which I briefly look back at the first two editions of this book, try to place them in context and introduce the changes in this new edition.
This book was first conceived over 25 years ago. In 1982 when I was first approached by Tim Hardwick to write this book the world was a very different place. The United Nations International Year of the Disabled Person had just finished. I had just completed my work with the LUDUS Dance-inEducation company’s Special School Project ‘Learning Through Dance’ and had recently moved to Canada to begin what has turned out to be my career as an academic.
