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A garden of the imagination
- Author:
- GARTLAND Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 19.11.97, 1997, pp.29-30.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains how the creation of a sensory garden was used to treat children with severe learning and health disabilities.
Children with learning and other disabilities: some key legislation
- Author:
- RUSSELL Philippa
- Publisher:
- Council for Disabled Children
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Lists and describes key legislation affecting disabled children and children with learning difficulties.
Rethinking partnerships between parents and professionals
- Author:
- MITTLER Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 9(3), October 1995, pp.22-40.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The article was adapted from a keynote address to the Australian Society for the Study of Intellectual Disability and the National Council on Intellectual Disability, Fremantle, Western Australia, October 1994. Reappraises the relationship between families and professionals in the field of intellectual learning disability after a study by Members of an International Year of the Family Task Force established by the International League of Societies for Persons with Mental Handicap. Summarises some directions for change.
Gentle persuasion
- Author:
- LYON Christina
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 16.2.95, 1995, p.11.
There has been a dearth of official guidance on caring for children with learning disabilities and severely challenging behaviour. Offers guidance drawn from the work of the Mental Health Foundation.
I want to be a good parent: book 4; children need to be safe
- Author:
- MCGAW Sue
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 11p.,illus.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Illustrated booklet about keeping children safe, aimed at parents with learning difficulties.
The silent minority: children with disabilities in Asian families
- Author:
- SHAH Robina
- Publisher:
- National Children's Bureau
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 128p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Focuses on services for children with disabilities in Asian families. Challenges many of the stereotypes which may be held by service providers about parents' attitudes to their child's special needs. Explores parents' awareness of the services available to help them, and their views of these services.
An observational case study of staring behaviour
- Author:
- FALLON John
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 23(1), 1995, pp.33-36.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes the use of empirical data to test a popularity-held subjective view of the attitude of a man with learning disabilities towards children following incidents involving attacks on children after his settlement into the community from long-term institutional care. Analysis of the data collected revealed no significant difference between attention paid to adults and children. It was therefore concluded that it was unreasonable to assume an unhealthy preoccupation with children.
Facing the future: making plans for the care of someone with a learning disability
- Authors:
- LEWYCKA Marina, MARES Penny
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 63p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Rotherham
Aimed at parents of children with learning disabilities who want to plan for the future. Provides information on social services and the role of MENCAP. Explains why it is important to make a will, and other legal arrangements. Gives advice on how to make the system work.
Working with parents of young children with disabilities
- Authors:
- WEBSTER Elizabeth J., WARD Louise M
- Publisher:
- Singular Publishing
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 131p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- San Diego, CA
Practical text focusing on the families of children with disabilities, and their initial and continuing reactions and strategies for coping.
Socialt arbete och MBD - om diagnosens sociala dimensioner. (Social work and MBD - on the social dimensions of the diagnosis.)
- Author:
- SUOMINEN Sauli
- Journal article citation:
- Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, 13(3), 1993, pp.12-23.
- Publisher:
- Universitetsforlaget AS
A diagnosis of MBD (minimal brain dysfunction) is generally seen as a medical concern, a neurological abnormality in risk children. Studies have shown with increasing clarity, however, that neurological development takes place in interaction with the social environment right from the foetal stage. These studies have been conducted by, among others, representatives of the disciplines of psychology and education. In social work there has been hitherto no interest in the problem. This article is mainly based on the diagnosis of MBD. The author presents various aetiological models, discusses the consequences of the diagnosis, and looks at the abnormality from a network perspective. He presents an attempt to help families with children with disturbances like MBD. At the holiday and course centre of H"gsand, the Child Care Association of Finland has run adaptation courses for parents and children since 1986. Finally, the author shows why social work has an important place in research concerning MBD children and risk children in general.