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Marginalization and its effects on the sexuality-related potentials of the learning disabled person
- Authors:
- SHEERIN F., SINES D.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(1), March 1999, pp.39-49.
The author contends that marginalisation exists in both the UK and Ireland at a functional and attitudinal level, within many contemporary learning disability services. This conceptual paper seeks to examine the effects of marginalisation on the development of learning disabled people in Ireland, within the context of a proposed, integrative approach to personhood.
Significance of the attitudes of police and care staff toward sex and people who have a learning disability
- Authors:
- BAILEY A., SINES D.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 2(3), September 1998,
Examines the importance of attitudes and perceptions that care staff and police officers have towards people with learning disabilities. After discussion of the importance of attitudes with respect to people with learning disabilities, recent evidence is examined concerning attitudes to learning disabilities and sexuality and the measurement of such attitudes.