Abstract
Looking at the certificate I received from the General Nursing Council at the end of my nurse training I was horrified to see that it confirms my success in achieving the qualification of ‘Registered Nurse for the Mentally Subnormal’. Now, I don’t consider myself to have trained in the dark ages but this terminology reminds me how much things have changed in a (relatively) short period of time. Today we tend to refer to the client group we support as being ‘people with learning disabilities’ or as people having ‘learning difficulties’. This emphasis on ‘people first’ language is much more positive but we still need to be alert to the implications of using such terminology.
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