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Sex on the line - not lives
- Author:
- MELLAN Bryan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.9.95, 1995, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
It is not easy to educate people with learning difficulties about safe sex. Explores how it can be done, and why it is so crucial.
A recipe for pioneering research
- Author:
- HEGARTY John R.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 9(1), July 1995, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Describes the M.A in Community Care at Keele University, for many years the only post-graduate course in learning disability in Britain.
Helping ourselves
- Author:
- WALMSLEY Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.6.95, 1995, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on Equal People, a course produced by the Open University in partnership with Mencap and People First. The course is unique in that it is open to everyone, including people with learning difficulties. Describes the aims of the course.
Parental participation in issues concerning their sons and daughters with learning disabilities
- Author:
- ORLOWSKA Danuta
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 10(4), December 1995, pp.437-456.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Brings together literature on the participation of parents of people with learning disabilities. Research has focused mostly on participation during the school career, although increasing attention is being paid to participation at times of transition to adult services and moves from the family home. A number of issues surrounding participation are discussed: information, service philosophy, parental expectations for their sons and daughters and relative levels of parental and professional responsibility, aiming to illustrate the complexity of this concept and issues that exist for research and practice.
Marriage of convenience
- Authors:
- HEBRON Crispin, ROSE Steven
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 6.12.95, 1995, pp.55-56.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at the growth of preregistration joint training in the area of learning disability nursing and social work. Argues that this is to the advantage of learning disability nurses.
Students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities: guidance on arrangements for students requiring provision in 1995-96
- Author:
- FURTHER EDUCATION FUNDING COUNCIL
- Publisher:
- Further Education Funding Council
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- Coventry
Circular setting out arrangements for students with learning difficulties and or disabilities requiring provision in further education colleges.
Children, society and the arts
- Author:
- ROBINSON Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 9(4), 1995, pp.5-14.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Discusses the five articles on the arts and young people that appear in issue 9(4) of Children and Society. Argues that it is increasingly important that education recognises the importance of arts in personal and social development.
A right not a privilege
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.8.95, 1995, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Many parents of children with special needs are fighting to be able to send them to mainstream schools, and they feel education social workers are not their natural allies. Looks at the reasons why.
The political economy of special educational needs in Britain
- Authors:
- TOMLINSON Sally, COLQUHOUN Robert F.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 10(2), June 1995, pp.191-202.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Raises questions as to how far young people regarded as having special educational needs or disabilities are prepared for participation in the economy. It focuses on those aspects of the further education curriculum skills, and the development of National Vocational Qualifications which emphasise competencies. Contends that those labelled as special will find more difficulty in collecting meaningful skills and competences, and those in charge of new accreditation systems have made it clear that few concessions will be offered to this group.
Children's understanding of disability
- Author:
- LEWIS Ann
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 214p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores how pupils with severe learning difficulties and their non-disabled classmates interact. Uses the views of the children themselves.