How to educate professionals for the professional meeting with adults with intellectual disabilities/impairments?

ABSTRACT:
My ph.d.-work in general reflects aspects from disability research, research on professions, ethics, a socio-political context and modernization. This article just reflects minor parts of the work.
How are you as an adult with intellectual disabilities recognized and seen? From a traditional point of view the professional work would be characterized by care, support and development, communication, ethics, recognition and respect. Are these values at risk in our contemporary welfare system? And how do we make these values part of a professional education which itself is under pressure from e.g. public management and modernization?
On one hand the meeting or encounter represents essential values and ethical aspects according to professional traditions and standards as part of the welfare system in Denmark.
On the other hand people with intellectual impairments in our welfare society often experience infringement, outrage and offence. Human rights are not always respected. These experiences with infringement are not equally distributed. The German philosophers, Honneth and Habermas, both find a tendency that particularly underprivileged people are met in an infringing or intrusive way where they ought to be met with recognition as deserved.
Which factors can be seen as critical in the professional meetings with these citizens with intellectual impairment? Through my empirical work with people with intellectual disability/impairment I see dilemmas for the professional due to different tendencies.
The fact that the professions related to people with intellectual disability/impairment is not always recognized and respected could be one essential factor. Often they are characterized as semi-professions, and the question could be if these meetings can be qualified by qualifying the relevant educations?
I use the terms intellectual disability and impairment. This is due to the fact that I meet different groups in my empirical work. Some are born with developmental problems, some have a brain damage later in life – and in general I see this meeting as so fundamental that these diagnostic terms seem to mean less. It could be I or others suffering from Alzheimer’s’ or dementia. Intellectual disabilities are not always visible and this might emphasize some of the problems in the meeting/encounter even more.