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Sat 07 Jul 2008Nature and nurture
CARE FARMING:Two communities with special needs produce food for their neighbours and veg for a local restaurant They cannot articulate the way we can but they want to be treated as normal. They don't want to be pampered or patronised, writes Michael Kelly
THE CAMPHILL MOVEMENT was established in 1939 in Aberdeen by a paediatrician of Jewish origin, Dr Karl König, who was fleeing Nazi persecution in his native Vienna. König was drawn to the incredible ability of people with disabilities to live their lives from within a disabled body and he resolved himself to live with, care for and educate children and adults with special needs.
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