This article examines the 50 year history of the British Journal of Learning Disabilities, which was launched as Apex, the Journal of the Institute of Mental Subnormality, in 1973. Changes in language and terminology are tracked and the journal is placed in the context of wider policy and social developments. Three general phases are identified in the trajectory of the journal: the hospital period, the shift to community care, and the post-institutional period. The journal was not entirely anti-institution in its earliest days, and each transition through its different phases is gradual rather than abrupt. The enduring continuity of the journal's commitment to interdisciplinarity, eclecticism and practice-based research is evident throughout, and some of the controversies that have arisen from this approach are examined. The conflict between the desire to include people with learning disabilities in the journal and the academic demands of journal production is described.

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英国学习障碍杂志：历史

本文探讨了英国学习障碍杂志的 50 年历史，该杂志以 Apex 推出，即心理亚正常研究所杂志, 1973 年。跟踪语言和术语的变化，并将期刊置于更广泛的政策和社会发展的背景下。该期刊的发展轨迹确定了三个一般阶段：住院期、向社区护理的转变和住院后时期。该杂志在其早期并不完全是反机构的，其不同阶段的每次转变都是渐进的，而不是突然的。该杂志对跨学科性、折衷主义和基于实践的研究的承诺的持久连续性自始至终都是显而易见的，并且研​​究了这种方法引起的一些争议。描述了将有学习障碍的人纳入期刊的愿望与期刊制作的学术需求之间的冲突。