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What is important to you?: a booklet for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet contains information about the things that people with learning disabilities said are important for them. It helps them to think about what is important in their life and to to tell others what they need.
Making us count: identifying and improving mental health support for young people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 141p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report has been written with care managers, senior service managers, commissioners of services and interested practitioners in mind. It aims to explore the issues of mental health needs as understood by young people themselves and their family carers. To present their views about the gaps in services, what they find helpful and what kinds of support they would like to be available highlight some new and exciting approaches to addressing the mental health needs of young people with learning disabilities and to recommend ways in which services and support can be improved for both young people with learning disabilities and their family carers.
First impressions: emotional and practical support for families of a young child with a learning disability
- Author:
- FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The research aimed to address the emotional needs of families from the time of diagnosis until the child is five years old and explored four main areas: how the diagnosis was delivered; information given immediately following the diagnosis and during the following years. The emotional and practical support required at this time. The impact on family life, including the effects on other children, extended family and lifestyle. It found that while around half of all parents interviewed received adequate help, most described how they were left in the dark, forced to fight for a diagnosis, received poor information and were left to cope on their own. The research also found that what happens to families in the early stages following a diagnosis is crucial - even relationships between parents can deteriorate because of the strain.