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Abuse is bad
- Authors:
- SPEAKUP SELF ADVOCACY, BUBBLE MEDIA, (Producers)
- Publisher:
- Speakup Self Advocacy
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- (27 mins.), DVD
- Place of publication:
- Rotherham
Speakup Self Advocacy produces a range of information videos for people with learning disabilities. They employ and train people in advocacy and ways to speak up and also to help them to produce more videos and to give people real jobs and experience. Crimes such as abuse need to get into court, people need proper legal protection, which is not always there at the moment. They also need to be properly supported in court, such as in the pilot project described.
PMLD Network partnership board survey 2004
- Author:
- FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The survey found that whilst just over half of the Partnership Boards who replied felt they were taking forward some or all of these actions the majority were interested in receiving help to be inclusive of the needs of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
Intellectual disabilities: genetics, behaviour and inclusion
- Author:
- RONDAL J. A.
- Publisher:
- Whurr
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 203p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Advances in biobehavioural sciences are bringing important changes in the field of intellectual disabilities. Of particular interest is the description of particular behavioural phenotypes related to but distinct from genotypes, and the extent to which they are specific. In this text, more than 20 particular genetic syndromes with marked levels of intellectual disability are identified and described from a variety of points of view, including cognitive, language, behavioural, adaptive and social and community inclusion aspects.
Research and empowerment: involving people with learning difficulties in oral and life history research
- Author:
- ATKINSON Dorothy
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(7), December 2004, pp.691-702.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper takes as its central theme the argument that inclusive learning disability research has the potential to be empowering for the people involved. It draws from 2 oral and life history research projects to explore the multiple uses of story-telling and the multi-layered picture of learning disability history that emerged. People with learning difficulties were involved in all stages of the research process, contributing their stories as oral and life historians but also co-researching written records in a bid to know and understand more about their own and other people's past lives. The research enabled participants not only to tell their stories but also to reflect on them, to develop new insights into their meaning and to see them in a wider social and political context.
Involving people with learning disabilities in research: issues and possibilities
- Author:
- GILBERT Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 12(4), July 2004, pp.298-308.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Advances in the social position of people with learning disabilities have led to a situation where research and evaluation studies are increasingly required to include their views and opinions. One key outcome of this shift is that some major funding bodies now insist on the inclusion of people with learning disabilities as a condition of research funding. This has produced new possibilities and new challenges for researchers, and has real consequences for people working in health and social care. This paper sets out to explore some developments and challenges in research with people with learning disabilities, providing a selective overview of developments with the aim of demonstrating the richness, ingenuity and potential of research involving people with learning disabilities. Three broad sections focus on the ethics and philosophy of participatory research, methodologies employed at particular points in the research process designed to ensure the involvement of participants in research, and building capacity in participatory research as a precondition to the further development of this approach. An investment in capacity would enable this approach to move into the mainstream of research activity involving people with learning disabilities.
Lack of knowledge and fear is hampering the take-up of direct payments
- Author:
- HAYNES Anna
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 18(2), 2004, p.22.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reports on the first stage of a project which will go on to find ways of overcoming the barriers stopping people with learning difficulties getting direct payments. The 18 month project, is being carried out by The Rowan Organisation with funding from the Department of Health and will end in September 2005.
Care programme approach in a forensic learning disability service
- Authors:
- SELBY G., ALEXANDER R. T.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Forensic Practice, 6(4), December 2004, pp.26-31.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
De-institutionalisation and the closure of long-stay hospitals brought about increased focus on the development of alternative systems for safe, effective treatment of people with mental health problems. One result was the introduction of the care programme approach, whose main elements are systematic arrangements for assessing health and social needs of people accepted into mental health services, formulation of a care plan identifying all such needs, appointment of a care co-ordinator to keep in close touch with the patient and to monitor care, regular review and, if necessary, agreed changes to the plan. Describes the implementation of the process in a specialist medium secure forensic unit for people with learning disabilities, presenting findings from preliminary audits to monitor the process and briefly discussing some future directions.
Learning disability partnership boards: making participation real?
- Author:
- NICOLL Tricia
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 12(6), December 2004, pp.36-42.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Considers the role and function of learning disability partnership boards, focusing on how they have developed their skills in working in partnership with people with learning disabilities (self-advocates) and using examples from self-advocates themselves.
Are the spiritual and religious needs of people with learning disabilities being overlooked?
- Author:
- MORGAN Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 74, Autumn 2004, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
The Co-Director of the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities summarises the Foundation's disturbing new report saying that many people with learning disabilities want to explore spiritual and religious needs, yet rarely do they receive support from services to do so.
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 18, October 2004, pp.25-32.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Asks how much, 3 years after publication, the white paper 'Valuing people' has translated into practice on the ground. Summarises the 'Making Valuing people work' project. Discusses information presentation, the spirit of co-operation, and the influence of the board chair. Lists points for practice on user and carer involvement, and how good the partnership board is in involving carers, and key points.