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Commentary: our children deserve better
- Author:
- EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 19(4), 2014, pp.190-193.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Comments on the paper “Early intervention for children with learning disabilities: making use of what we know” by Nick Gore, Richard Hastings and Serena Brady. lt places the arguments made by Gore et al. in a broader scientific and policy context. It finds the arguments to support increased investment in early intervention and prevention presented to be fully consistent with the broader scientific literature on prevention and the required future direction of English health policy. (Edited publisher abstract)
Prevention and social care for adults with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, HATTON Chris, ROBERTSON Janet
- Publisher:
- NIHR School for Social Care Research
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 25p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Prevention seeks to eliminate or reduce need, and the current UK preventative agenda focuses on encouraging people to have healthy and active lifestyles and supporting people when a care need first arises to stop problems escalating. The aim of this review was to explore the issue of prevention in relation to adult social care services for people with learning disabilities, looking in particular at options for preventative actions, implications for adult social care practice, and possibilities for modelling the consequences of preventative strategies. It discusses what prevention is, ethical and ideological issues, primary prevention of learning disabilities (including screening and addressing environmental causes) and of the need for adult social care services among people with learning disabilities, and secondary prevention of learning disabilities (through early intervention) and of the need for adult social care services among people with learning disabilities. Key research questions for primary and secondary prevention are identified. The paper concludes that a plausible case can be made for the viability and potential effectiveness of primary and secondary prevention of learning disabilities and of the need for social care support among people with learning disabilities, and that the vast majority of the options for prevention involve altering the social and environmental context in which children grow up.
Early interventions, autism and challenging behaviour
- Author:
- EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 1(1), January 1996, pp.36-38.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Over the last few years there has been a renewed interest in the potential benefits of early intervention programmes for children with learning disabilities. Could investment in early intervention prevent the development of severely challenging behaviour? This article looks at some of the lessons learned from Ivar Lovaa's work at the Early Intervention Project at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).