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Groundwork: building the foundations for change
- Authors:
- HORSFALL Linda, CROWHURST Greg
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 8(2), October 1994, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The experiential learning perspective is the groundwork on which better services can be built.
Aromatherapy: making connections
- Author:
- HERRING Marion
- Journal article citation:
- Mencap News, 41, January 1994, p.7.
Brief notes on the use of aromatherapy for people with learning disabilities in three settings: the hospital, the school and the group home.
Facilitated communication: results from a number of recently published evaluations
- Author:
- FELCE David
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 22(4), 1994, pp.122-126.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Facilitated Communication (FC) is said by its proponents to allow people thought previously to have little or no expressive language to communicate in sometimes sophisticated ways about themselves, their feelings and their views on world. These claims challenge accepted understandings of intellectual and cognitive disability and language development. They have naturally caused controversy, the more so since FC involves direct physical guidance being given to enable the individual to spell out messages. Such guidance may permit direct facilitator control of the content of what is being communicated. Several research studies investigating the validity of FC and the possibility of facilitator influence have now been published. All of those described here show that individuals could not communicate beyond their previously recognised language abilities when facilitators have been prevented from knowing what response was required. This evidence alone suggests that the facilitators must shape the message being produced during FC. However, most studies also produced direct evidence that they do indeed do so. There is no basis for encouraging more widespread implementation of FC at the moment.
The awakening
- Author:
- JOHNSON Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 17.11.94, 1994, pp.12-13.
Describes how facilitated communication allowed people with severe learning disabilities in a residential home in Denmark to gain more influence over their daily lives.
A communication perspective
- Author:
- WETHERED Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Mencap News, 47, September 1994, pp.14-15.
Communication is a problem for most people who have learning difficulties. Explains how carer expectations and feedback are the keys to improving clients' communication skills.
Communication-based intervention for problem behavior: a user's guide for producing positive change
- Authors:
- CARR Edward G., et al
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 274p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Step by step guide to innovative methods for managing problem behaviour in people with learning difficulties, or with mental health problems. Contains chapters on: crisis management and functional assessment; the core intervention; and additional procedures and programming for generalisation and maintenance.
Enabling research: people with learning difficulties. Elderly people. Young children
- Authors:
- SIMONS Ken, RICHARDS Sally, HAYDEN Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 12(2), 1994, pp.4-8.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Workshop leaders were tasked with presenting a session about particular issues arising when carrying out consumer research with different groups of people. The groups of people under consideration were people with learning difficulties, older people and young people. Reports on the issues explored in the different workshops.
Speech and language therapy provision in a Social Education Centre: the value of a 'First Step' assessment
- Authors:
- LAW James, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 22(2), 1994, pp.66-69.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper follows up a group of 84 students in a Social Education Centre who had been screened and allocated to groups according to their communication needs. Three quarters were found to have been correctly placed in the first instance, and the communication needs of those felt to be incorrectly placed are discussed and alternative suggestions made. The results indicate that a simple question and answer screening schedule completed by key workers and where appropriate, students, can prove an efficient point of departure when introducing a service to a Social Education Centre.