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Being a witness: I am a witness in court: a guide for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- ENABLE Scotland
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
A booklet designed for people with learning difficulties about being a witness in court. The booklet describes what a witness is , the experience of going to court, and the roles of the different people in court. It also explains about the help available to someone with learning difficulties who is a witness and where to ask for help.
Being a witness: helping people with learning disabilities who go to court: a guide for carers
- Author:
- ENABLE Scotland
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This booklet is aimed at carers and covers how to help adults with learning disabilities who have been asked to be a witness in a criminal court case or at a children’s hearing court case. An adult witness is someone aged 16 or over. It contains information that informal carers, care workers and advocacy or other staff may find useful before, during and after the court case. The court process and the people present are explained, and what a carer can do in advance, on the day and afterwards is outlined.
What's happening?
- Authors:
- BARBARA Tim, et al, (Producers), WILSON Alastair, (Author)
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- DVD
- Place of publication:
- London
The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, worked with 16 young people with learning disabilities to find out what makes them feel anxious or depressed. Using video and photo diaries the young people talked about how they felt. This DVD presents the experiences of three young people from this study. They talk about how their lives became difficult or unhappy and what helped them to start to feel better. The DVD is intended to help young people, families and practitioners to identify and learn from their experiences.
Having a say: helping people with learning disabilities participate in planning services
- Authors:
- EVANS John, (Producer), THOMAS Jeanette, (Author)
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Outlines the work of Learning Disability Wales (formerly SCOVO), the collective voice of the voluntary sector in Wales which promotes the right of children and adults with a learning disability to have valued lives.
Making connections: stories of local area co-ordination in Scotland
- Author:
- SCOTTISH CONSORTIUM FOR LEARNING DISABILITY
- Publisher:
- Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
This booklet explains the local area coordination approach through stories provided by individuals and their families. These personal accounts show how good things happen when people have control of their own lives and futures and how Local Area Co-ordinators (LACs) can support people to make that happen.
Patterns of culture and power after 'The Great Release': the history of movements of subculture and empowerment among Danish people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- BYLOV Frank
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34(3), September 2006, pp.139-145.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article discusses the history of self-advocacy in Denmark. It also gives some information about how services for people with learning difficulties in Denmark have changed over the past 100 years. The author discusses the different types of self-advocacy groups that have grown in Denmark. He describes how these movements have developed in 'generations'. Three 'generations' are identified: movements of cultural role transgression; movements of self-advocacy; and movements of political empowerment. The author draws on theory to help explain some of the developments that self-advocacy groups in Denmark have been through during their history.
Practitioner consensus in the use of cognitive behaviour therapy for individuals with a learning disability
- Authors:
- HADDOCK Katie, JONES Robert S.P.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 10(3), September 2006, pp.221-230.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has been acknowledged as one of the most successful treatments for mental health problems. However, only a small number of practitioners engage in CBT with people with learning disabilities. A group of eight clinical psychologists who currently use CBT with this population gave details about their work in an attempt to gain a consensus on how to adapt CBT. The collective experiences of a wider group of experts produced a wealth of knowledge and suggestions to promote the use of CBT with this client group. Results suggested that although CBT needs to be creatively delivered, it does not necessarily need extensive adaptation.
Swansea People First Peer Health Advocacy project
- Authors:
- COLEMAN Lynn, OWENS Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 81, Autumn 2006, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
The first author explains the work of the Swansea People First Peer Health Advocacy Project. The second author briefly recounts his own experience as a group member.
A guide to person centred planning
- Author:
- DUFFY Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 6, Autumn 2006, pp.13-17.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
Person Centred Planning is about working with someone to find out what they want to do with their life and working out how to make it happen. It is very different from a 'care plan' or 'assessment', which focus on the 'service' a person needs. The author looks at the key areas of person centred planning and describes four different Person Centred Planning Tools.
Why don't we care?
- Author:
- SIVAGNANAM Ruba
- Journal article citation:
- New Bulletin, September 2006, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation
In July 2006 the Social Care and Health Inspectorates published a highly critical report revealing extensive institutional abuse and mistreatment in the care of people with learning disabilities in Cornwall. This article summaries some of the key findings of the report.