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Life-story books for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- HEWITT Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 19.8.98, 1998, pp.61-63.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Discusses the use of life-story books for people for learning difficulties, and explains how they focus attention on the person as an individual rather than just a client.
See the ability not the disability
- Author:
- QUINN Eamonn
- Journal article citation:
- Scope, June 1998, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action
Looks at some of the ways information technology can help people with disabilities. Focuses on TASC, a new pilot project for people with learning difficulties.
Communicating with children who have disabilities: a right for the child - a challenge for the adult
- Author:
- WELCH B.M
- Publisher:
- B.M. Welch
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- Preston
Outlines some of the general principles involved in communicating with children with disabilities, using a child centred approach throughout.
Allegations of sexual abuse by nonverbal autistic people via facilitated communication: testing of validity
- Author:
- KONSTANTAREAS M. Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 22(10), October 1998, pp.1027-1041.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Assessing abuse allegations which refer to children with learning difficulties is a challenge to child protection services and specialist professionals alike. This article presents an approach to this problem in circumstances where facilitated communication is an added dimension.
Famous for fifteen minutes
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.10.98, 1998, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a training project that teaches people with learning difficulties to make videos - a powerful medium for self-advocacy.
Communication in multi-sensory rooms
- Author:
- HIRSTWOOD Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Focus, 23, February 1998, pp.20-31.
- Publisher:
- RNIB
Discusses the use of multi-sensory rooms to help people develop language and communication skills for people with visual and learning difficulties.
Some ethical and methodological issues in research with people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- STALKER Kirsten
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(1), February 1998, pp.5-19.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article discusses some ethical and methodological issues arising in a recent study examining the exercise of choice by people with learning difficulties. The research aimed to examine in detail the choice-making process, and to explore ways of involving people with learning difficulties both as respondents and as a contributors to the study design. Reflecting on experience gained in this study and on research reported elsewhere, a number of pointers for future research are drawn. These include the need to consider the potential implications of intellectual impairment for involvement in the research process.
Communicating with people with an intellectual disability in guardianship board hearings: an exploratory study
- Authors:
- SHADDOCK A.J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 23(4), 1998, pp.279-293.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
People with an intellectual disability are frequently involved in various meetings about their welfare. These meetings range from formal, e.g. Guardianship Board Tribunals, to somewhat informal, e.g. meetings to plan and educational programme. Very often, those who attend these meetings do not know the person well - in fact they may be meeting the person for the first time. This article describes Australian research on a strategy (know as Biala) for ensuring that the participants in such forums interact sensitively and communicate effectively with the person with a disability.
An investigation of speech and language therapy to improve the communication environment of people with severe learning disabilities who have communication difficulties and behaviours that challenge services
- Author:
- CHATTERTON Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 2(4), December 1998, pp.203-211.
Describes a project which investigates the effect of speech and language therapy on the communication environment in a home for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. It uses the principles of: facilitating cares in the understanding of the nature and causes of challenging behaviour, particularly in relation to communication; facilitating carers in understanding the role of the environment and their own communication in relation to the clients challenging behaviour; support carers in developing appropriate activities for the client. Concludes that speech and language therapy was effective in improving the communication environment. The impact of the improved communication environment on challenging behaviours was not measured.
Breaking through the communication barrier
- Author:
- HARBRIDGE Elinor
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(1), July 1998, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Discusses the work of CHANGE, an organisation set up five years ago to support people with both learning difficulties and sensory impairment in achieving access to services.