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Learning disabilities: the fundamental facts
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, HATTON Chris, FELCE David, MURPHY Glynis
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
Practical text defining providing basic facts and statistics on people with learning difficulties, concepts of learning disability, community, health needs, service provision and its costs.
A vicious circle: visual impairment in people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- STANFORD Penelope, SHEPHERD Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 9.8.01, 2001, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Visual problems in people with learning disabilities can lead to further disablement and lowered self-esteem. Suggest ways in which nurses can counteract this.
Case registers, trends and commissioning
- Author:
- RUSSELL Oliver
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 6(3), July 2001, pp.14-17.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Case registers have been around for over 30 years but have had a disappointingly small impact on service planning. Comments on the Leicestershire Learning Disability Register and the lessons that can be learned. Argues that commissioners and providers should take note of the future trends in prevalence which emerge from the study.
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 11, April 2001, pp.54-56.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Reports on an accessible digest of up-to-date research which provides information for people working with, or for, people with learning difficulties.
One to one teaches one to one
- Author:
- LEWIS Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.2.01, 2001, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains how the One-to-One project aims to help people with learning difficulties conquer their fear of crime during the long dark winter nights, by teaching them self-defence.
Demonstrating control of decisions by adults with learning difficulties who have high support needs
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Choice and control are at the heart of developments for people with learning difficulties. The recent White Paper, Valuing people: A new strategy for learning disability for the 21st century, acknowledges this in its key principles. People with high support needs (who may be labelled as having severe or profound learning difficulties and may also have physical and sensory impairments) may find themselves excluded from these developments. Research by Values Into Action investigated how decision-making can be supported and demonstrated.
A Space to listen: meeting the spiritual needs of people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- SWINTON John
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 24p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Spirituality is an important but neglected area in the lives of people with learning disabilities. Spirituality is defined as encompassing, what gives meaning to people's lives, the sense of transcendence, and the importance of relationships and connections. Consultations with people from different faiths or none, people with learning disabilities, family carers and service providers all suggested the importance of the value of friendship and finding meaning to life.
Good intentions-unpredictable consequences
- Author:
- HENLEY C.A.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(7), December 2001, pp.933-947.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
A commendable degree of success has been achieved in relocating people with learning disabilities from residential institutions into ordinary community settings. Nevertheless, a challenging task remains if people with all levels of learning disabilities are to be enabled to become meaningfully involved in ordinary community activities. The author argues that a structured day service has a vital role to play in this process, but that, unless the underlying problems that have continued to frustrate the development of a coherent national day care strategy are objectively reappraised and addressed, the true potential of the 'care in the community' policy will not be realised. Offers evidence to support the view that current policy trends are based on normalisation theories that, although sound and commendable in principle, have been misunderstood and misused.
Families of children with profound learning difficulties are let down by statutory services
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.11.01, 2001, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how a new report from Mencap calles for an overhaul of support services for carers of children with profound learning difficulties.
Planning care for children in respite settings: hello, this me
- Authors:
- LAVERTY Helen, REET Mary
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 171p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book offers an approach to planning respite care provision for disabled children and children with learning difficulties, based on the child's abilities and needs. The model set out in this book, the "Hello, this is me model" provides a method of assessing and planning care for children with a variety of special needs. Throughout the book an emphasis is placed on partnership between families and carers that enables children and their parents to make their wishes known when planning respite care so that the unique needs of each child can be met.