1DEVELOPMENT AND DISSOLUTION DURING THE NORMALIZATION PROCESS

Persons with handicap in the welfare society The change from an institutional system, where care was provided in residen-tial homes, to community services provided through housing, in employment and through life in the community, has its roots in the welfare society which has been under development since the 1940:s. Its creation gave rise to new means of providing support and service to these persons. A more modern system of social services had to be developed if the idea of the welfare society was to be realized. This, parallel to the institutional service system, gave society two ways of channelling its support to persons with handicap (Ericsson 1985, Ericsson 1986, Ericsson 1987). As a result of the debate on the nature of the support of society which took place at the beginning of the 1940:s, "The Committee for the Partially Able-bodied " was given the task of finding the forms of support to persons with handicap, that they were to receive welfare and a good life. They began by discussing the services of persons with handicap in relation to the welfar