ABSTRACT
This chapter considers Hester Adrian Research Centre's (HARC) response to the educational, and indeed social, challenges this state of affairs offered. It investigates profound and multiple disability in HARC with support from the Department of Education and Science (DES) in the early 1970s. The early days of HARC coincided with a burgeoning interest in what at the time we comfortably referred to as 'behaviour modification' and which subsequently we came to call 'applied behaviour analysis' (ABA). The chapter provides a wider context of issues, services and research in which the Centre's work was undertaken. It shows how interests in HARC converged with those developing in the voluntary sector and recent developments of such collaboration. The Anson House service also embodied a crucial element of HARC's overall orientation in its early years, that is the opportunity for parents to participate and to learn from the on-going work.
