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Art therapy and learning disability
- Author:
- KUCZAJ Ed
- Journal article citation:
- Mencap News, 45, June 1994, pp.12-13.
Describes how art therapy can help people with learning disabilities.
Physiotherapy in learning disability
- Author:
- FRASER Rita
- Journal article citation:
- Mencap News, 45, June 1994, pp.4-5.
Shows how physiotherapy can be used with people with learning difficulties.
Sexuality training in Occupational Therapy for people with a learning disability, four years on: Policy Guidelines
- Author:
- THOMPSON Simon B.N.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 57(7), July 1994, pp.255-258.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Four years ago, work was started on a draft policy for use in sexuality training in occupational therapy for people with learning disabilities in a special hospital in Birmingham. Guidelines are presented to provide a practical framework for occupational therapists to develop their own policy according to individual working conditions and issues relevant to their particular client group.
Music therapy: the creative self
- Author:
- STREETER Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- Mencap News, 45, June 1994, pp.10-11.
Discusses music therapy.
Therapy at the Bobath Centre
- Author:
- SHENTON Baby
- Journal article citation:
- Mencap News, 45, June 1994, pp.14-15.
Describes how the work of the Bobath Centre helps children with disabilities.
Early intervention: planning futures, shaping years
- Author:
- McCONKEY Roy
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 7(1), 1994, pp.4-15.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
The achievements of early interventions during the last quarter of a century are built on family-based services with a whole-child focus. Their influence has been far-reaching but knowing what needs to be done increases the frustrations in making effective interventions available to all families and children, irrespective of where they live. Among the service transformations reviewed are the shift in focus from children to families; the recasting of service personnel from specialists to family supporters; the development of therapies into child-led transactions as the preferred means of promoting development, and new approaches to evaluating service effectiveness.
Bereavement intervention with vulnerable populations: a case report on group work with the developmentally disabled
- Author:
- ROTHENBERG Eleanore Dubin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work with Groups, 17(3), 1994, pp.61-75.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The sudden death of a group member, in this case a developmentally disabled young adult, created a crisis requiring social work intervention in the form of a formalized bereavement program to help surviving group members and staff cope with their grief. The program described here evolved over the course of an eight-week intervention period. Social group work was combined with concrete methods, including religious rituals and art therapy, as well as supplementation with individual counselling, to help members of the group say "goodbye" to the deceased and to overcome their pain in order to return to their normal activities, as soon as possible.
Speech and language therapy provision in a Social Education Centre: the value of a 'First Step' assessment
- Authors:
- LAW James, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 22(2), 1994, pp.66-69.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper follows up a group of 84 students in a Social Education Centre who had been screened and allocated to groups according to their communication needs. Three quarters were found to have been correctly placed in the first instance, and the communication needs of those felt to be incorrectly placed are discussed and alternative suggestions made. The results indicate that a simple question and answer screening schedule completed by key workers and where appropriate, students, can prove an efficient point of departure when introducing a service to a Social Education Centre.
Protect and survive
- Author:
- MARCHANT Catriona
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.12.93, 1994, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A study by Respond, a London based therapeutic service for people with learning difficulties who have been sexually abused found that of those living in the community nearly half had been abused. Gives the results of the study, discusses the difficulties in detecting abuse and calls for measures such as sex education and HIV/AIDS preventive work for these vulnerable people.