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Using autobiographical approaches with people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- ATKINSON Dorothy, WALMSLEY Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(2), March 1999, pp.203-216.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Biography and autobiography have been used in numerous ways to represent people with learning difficulties. This article reviews a variety of approaches to biography and autobiography with people with learning difficulties, and discusses the roles researchers play. Ends with a discussion of the potential of autobiography as a means to change the power relationships in disability research.
I want to tell you a story
- Author:
- BENN Melissa
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.6.99, 1999, p.14.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that empowering people with learning difficulties is not about giving them what we think they need but about listening to what they have to say about their lives, feelings and experiences.
All aboard the children's express
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.4.99, 1999, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Takes a look at a new pack that uses tools to allow disabled children with learning difficulties to communicate and have a say in the way services designed to help them are delivered.
Some issues in caring for people with the dual disability of Down's Syndrome and Alzheimer's dementia
- Author:
- McCARRON M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(3), 1999, pp.123-129.
Virtually all individuals with Down's syndrome over the age of 35 years have neuropathological changes characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. It has become increasingly recognised the people with Down's syndrome and dementia have every special needs, and those who care for them require specialist knowledge and skills. This paper aims to explore some of important issues in caring for persons with this dual disability. In an attempt to help staff respond to the opportunities and challenges they encounter, issues discussed include: promoting well-being, developing a shared vision on which to build practice, mealtimes - a therapeutic event, reality orientation and validation therapy, communication, activity and entertainment.
'Feeling poorly': report of a pilot study aimed to increase the ability of people with learning disabilities to understand and communicate about physical illness
- Authors:
- DODD Karen, BRUNKER Jo
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 27(1), 1999, pp.10-15.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article presents the findings of a pilot study which investigated whether people with learning disabilities can understand and communicate more effectively symptoms of illness. Assessments for GPs, clients and carers were designed in order to ascertain the nature of consultations currently taking place, and the level of awareness that clients had of their body and being ill. Also looks at the assessment and teaching resource developed for the project.
I'll go first: the planning and review toolkit for use with children with disabilities
- Author:
- KIRKBRIDE Lucy
- Publisher:
- Children's Society
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 83p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This pack aims to provide social workers, teachers and other professionals with the means to enable children with disabilities to communicate their views. It contains a variety of wipe-clean boards, with illustrations and simple sentences, on which those views are recorded using stickers and pens. The boards are photocopied to provide a permanent record. The pack is designed for use with children in short term foster care, family-based short term care, in a residential children's centre or with a statement of special educational needs. Detailed advice on using the materials in different situations is supplied.
Keeping consumers at the centre of planning
- Authors:
- BRANDON David, HAWKES Annie
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(1), September 1999, pp.8-14.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The authors suggest that assessment and care planning needs a system which can be understood by services users as well as by professionals. They show how the 'four magnets' - control, skills, pain and contact - can be unifying and holistic.
Staff culture and the management of challenging behaviours in people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- WHITWORTH Denise, HARRIS Paul, JONES Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 2(11), July 1999, pp.376-378.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Formal behaviour modification programmes often fail to achieve results when transferred to the context of everyday care in residential settings for people with learning disabilities. Reports on a small-scale study which pinpoints a culture clash and credibility gap between the professionals who devise and direct the programmes and the direct care staff expected to implement them.
Promoting health: the challenge for the community learning disability nurse
- Authors:
- COYLE David, NORTHWAY Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(7), March 1999, pp.232-235.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
People with learning disabilities are known to face barriers to accessing primary health care services. They thus risk exclusion from the government's public health agenda and from general medical services. Special service initiatives may be needed to promote awareness among primary health care professionals, carers and people with learning disabilities. The authors present the case for the health promoting role of the community learning disability nurse.
Active support: getting it working within an organisation
- Author:
- TINDALL Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 4(1), January 1999, pp.32-38.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes the implementation of 'active support' in United Response, a national voluntary organisation which provides services to people with learning disabilities. The learning process in implementing active support demonstrates that effective leadership by service managers and area managers is very important. It is also important to recognise the scale of change when introducing active support, and that managers may have difficulty with being given a very specific practice focus which they are required to model for other staff members.