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King of creative music
- Author:
- NICKALLS Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Third Force News, 20.3.98, 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
Outlines the creative music courses run at St Andrews University's School of Psychology for care staff who work with people with learning difficulties, and discusses their benefits.
Continence promotion among children with severe disabilities
- Author:
- GRIEVE Teri
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 14.10.98, 1998, pp.58-59.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article considers the literature on continence promotion among children with severe learning disability and looks at parents perceptions of the support they receive.
Issues in the development of a computer-based safety programme for children with severe learning disabilities
- Authors:
- LEE Deborah, McGEE Anna, UNGAR Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 7(5), September 1998, pp.343-354.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Outlines the development of a personal safety prevention for children with severe learning disabilities. Concepts such as the child's understanding about authority figures and moral development have been integrated into the programme, which utilises multi-media technology. As this is a computer based programme, the reason for such a medium rather than previously implemented presentation (e.g. books, film) are discussed. Views of the participants evaluating the implementation of the teaching package are also described.
Going it alone
- Author:
- QUILGARS Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.9.98, 1998, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Living independently can sometimes cause isolation for people with mental health problems. Reports on a new scheme in Yorkshire which seeks to provide company and support to help people who go it alone.
Self-injury and violence in people with severe learning difficulties
- Author:
- READ Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 172, May 1998, pp.381-384.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Discusses how psychiatry in severe and profound learning disability is essentially behavioural psychiatry and summarises some clinical and research observations of disorders of behaviour in this group. Concludes that self-injury is strongly associated with violence, and with severe and profound learning disability. Reduction of arousal by anti-psychotic medication is associated with clinical improvement in violent and self-injurious behaviours.
Power-sharing brings greater satisfaction
- Author:
- WOOD Dave
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 22.4.98, 1998, pp.54-55.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains how a community trust involving services users with learning difficulties and their parents in appointing staff is having outstanding results.
Whose fight is it?
- Author:
- LEWIS Christina
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.3.98, 1998, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks to parents of children with learning difficulties who find themselves torn between their own needs and their responsibilities to their children.
Competence and quality in the lives of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities: some recent research
- Author:
- HOGG James
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 3(1), January 1998, pp.6-14.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
While the right of life, 'personhood', and the educability of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities are still under-debated, service providers and research workers continue to extend the boundaries of expectations with respect to what such people can achieve. In this article the messages of recent research are summarised and key references for fuller information suggested. The need to bring together such specialised knowledge in the framework of an ordinary life aimed at enhancing competence and quality of life is urged.
Evaluating the multidimensional nature of supported employment
- Authors:
- LEWIS Darroll R., JOHNSON David R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 11(2), 1998, pp.95-115.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The emergence of supported employment services in the United States has raised expectations concerning the viability of employment in promoting the work productivity, social integration and personal independence of persons with severe disabilities. Examines the multidimensional outcomes of supported employment in the USA in terms of its effectiveness and efficiency and offers several policy recommendations for improving these outcomes.
Paradigms in intellectual disability: compare, contrast, combine
- Authors:
- BURTON Mark, SANDERSON Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 11(1), 1998, pp.44-59.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Four relatively distinct traditions in work with people with intellectual disability are identified: ordinary living/normalisation, functional, behavioural and developmental. These approaches are analysed as paradigms which could be incompatible or compatible. The paradigms are explored in relation to a profoundly disabled man, whose case illustrates the complementarity of these approaches. It is suggested that the ordinary living paradigm is best seen as a basic guide to direction with the other paradigms feeding into it to help chiefly with implementation. However, the possibility is raised that rather than the co-existence of different paradigm, what is really being sought here is a new and super-ordinate paradigm that still awaits its full development.