Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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With the deregulation of services, people with learning disabilities are now looked after across a wider range of organisations and by a wider range of care
Epilepsy is relatively common in people with learning disabilities, and can be complex and refractory to treatment, with negative effects on quality of life
Healthcare and other services have a legal duty to ensure that people with learning disabilities and autism are treated with the same standard of care as an
<p>INTENDED FOR the parents of children with Asperger’s syndrome, this book is written by a woman who has the condition herself and whose children have it.</p>
<p>THIS IS the second book by the author that I have read. The first was a critique of the loss of structured day services in many parts of the UK.
Background People with intellectual disabilities have the same sexual needs as the rest of the population, but find the expression of sexuality
In recent years learning disability nurses have had to demonstrate the viability of their profession and ensure that they are viewed as fit for purpose.
Background The number of people with learning disabilities and significant health needs who have been placed in Cornwall from outside the count
<p>I REVIEWED this book with another on the same subject and thought at first that this was the least appealing.
<p>FOCUSING ON the clinical care of substance-misusing patients, this extensively revised book provides a comprehensive description of drug treatment services in the Unite
<p>WITH 17 chapters over almost 370 pages, this book may appear daunting.
The recommendations in the Mansell reports published first in 1993 and updated in 2007 have not been implemented, despite the scandal at Winterbourne View a
The abuse of adults with learning disabilities at Winterbourne View by staff with no previous record of misconduct can be compared with the results of the 1971 Stanford prison experiment, in which students at Stanford University, California, were asked to play the role of pri
By the end of 1991, institutional care for people with learning disabilities ended in Norway and former residents were relocated to their local communities.
<p>THE AUTHOR of this book, a final-year physics student at the time of writing, has Asperger’s syndrome, and this is his second publication on aspects of the English language.</p>
<p>INTENDED PRIMARILY for learning disability nursing students and untrained practitioners, this book should attract a wider readership because it could encourage all healthcare staff to provide the best care possible for service users.</p>
<p>INTEREST IN the sexuality of people with autism has grown over recent years, and the subject has been broached in books, resources and online guidance.</p>
<p>IN THIS book trains and train travel are metaphors for different aspects of conversation, which the author uses to encourage children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) to communicate.
