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Getting better all the time?: issues and strategies for ensuring quality in community services for people with mental handicap; papers and reports from a workshop May 7th - 9th 1986
- Editor:
- WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Kings Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 88p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Defines quality and looks at practical approaches to pursuing quality in both residential and community support services. Includes section on planning for quality when developing services.
A part of community: social integration and neighbourhood networks
- Authors:
- ATKINSON Dorothy, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Campaign for People with Mental Handicap
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 11p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
People first: developing services in the community for people with mental handicap. A review of the literature
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- King's Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 1982
- Pagination:
- 160p.,bibliog.,list of orgns.
- Place of publication:
- London
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, April 2006, pp.45-52.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
The author looks at a study examining the impact of person-centred planning on the lives of people with learning difficulties and the costs involved. The project was funded under the Department of Health's learning disability research initiative.
‘It's about a dialogue...’ Working with people with learning difficulties to develop accessible information
- Authors:
- WARD Linda, TOWNSLEY Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 33(2), June 2005, pp.59-64.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Examines the importance of targeting information needs to match that of people with learning disabilities. It is argued that a partnership between 'expert' or experienced information user and those new to the area can be forged, but that it needs to occur throughout every stage of information production. Evaluating the information after it is produced is also highlighted as important. In conclusion the author reviews how working in partnership has both costs and benefits. The article is based on experience from the Information for All project.
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 1999, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Asks how people with learning difficulties can be empowered to live "ordinary lives". Looks at some answers to this question that may be found in the USA, the country that has led the way.
Practising partnership: involving people with learning difficulties in research
- Authors:
- WARD Linda, SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 26(4), 1998, pp.128-131.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article gives examples of people with learning difficulties helping to set the research agenda; advising and assisting with research projects; undertaking research themselves; and being both the target of, and actively involved in, the dissemination of research. It concentrates on describing practical examples of involvement rather than the theoretical context and debates surrounding it.
Home rules
- Authors:
- WARD Linda, KINSELLA Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 12.8.93, 1993, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
In the U.K. group housing for people with learning difficulties can still have institutional regimes and be far from home for the residents. In the U.S.A. there have been moves in recent years towards support living - individually-organised packages for individuals in their own homes. Options in Community Living in Madison, Wisconsin is one such scheme, which has been in operation for the last ten years. Learning from experiences in the U.S.A., the National Development Team is to establish a Supported Living Initiative in the U.K., hoping to take over where the 'Ordinary Life' movement left off.
Need to know
- Authors:
- WARD Linda, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 10.5.91, 1991, pp.12-13.
Some guidelines on improving provision in residential and day care for ethnic minority people with learning difficulties.
Planning for people: developing a local service for people with mental handicap. 1, Recruiting and training staff
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- King's Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 1984
- Pagination:
- 99p.,bibliog.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London