People with Learning Disabilities
Employing people with learning disabilities
... with learning disabilities we can inform the people who need to know, help build the bridges at work, keep the job going, maybe negotiate some time off and then go back in and work alongside that ...
75
Anger control for people with learning disabilities: a critical review
... mild learning disabilities to use social problem solving produced a drop in challenging behaviours as measured on Part 2 of the Adaptive Behaviour Scale (Nihira, Foster, Shelhaas, & Leland, ...severe ...
17
Transition planning for young people with learning disabilities in Great Britain
... for people with learning disabilities (between eight per cent and sixteen per ...young people with learning disabilities to end a repetitive cycle of participating in college ...
38
Psycho physical theatre practice as embodied learning for young people with learning disabilities
... with learning disabilities, OTC director drew upon psycho-physical, ensemble theatre practice for its ability to engage theatrically untrained individuals in expressing ideas and feelings in ways unique and ...
19
Care services for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour
... published learning disability census data to estimate the cost of treating people in inpatient hospital ...for people with learning disabilities within the 58 NHS and 49 independent ...
51
Transforming Care for People with Learning Disabilities Next Steps
... 8. As a group of organisations, we recognise the scale of change required, and we are committed to working together to ensure that we succeed in transforming care for people with learning ...
27
Communication is the key: Improving outcomes for people with learning disabilities
... by the broader multidisciplinary team to increase successful intervention outcomes and pinpoint concerns about care providers who do not enhance communication effectively. Originality / value - The authors suggest that a ...
15
Models of support for people with learning disabilities post-secondary school
... As a result of this evidence, this paper will discuss four countries’ approaches to support for people with learning disabilities. These countries have been selected as examples of the most advanced ...
30
The impact of moving home to the identity of people with learning disabilities
... with people with learning ...the people with learning disabilities in the services in the ...disabled people (Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, 2005) discussed two main barriers: ...
405
Employment and people with learning disabilities A policy brief ng
... that people with learning disabilities may become ghettoised if there is a large expansion of social fi ...few people with mild learning ...
6
Developing the self employment option for people with learning disabilities
... A learning point from the project therefore concerns the motivation of potential ...reason, people with learning disabilities “weren’t coming along and saying ‘what I’ve always wanted is to be ...
44
Health Inequalities and People with Learning Disabilities in the UK
... by people with learning disabilities in the UK start early in life, 15-20 and result, to an extent, from barriers they face in accessing timely, appropriate and effective health ...
24
Valuing Employment Now: real jobs for people with learning disabilities
... for people with learning disabilities to get to work and do their jobs ...a learning disability has been using the easy5 phone for the last two ...
108
Promoting choice and control in residential services for people with learning disabilities
... contradictions in legislation, health and safety rules with a protective focus ‘may turn homes for people with learning disabilities into work places’ (p237; see also Dowson, 1997). In one example ...
23
Forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: a human rights issue
... of people with learning disabilities may go some way to explaining the demographic differences between people with and without learning disabilities who are forced to ...of ...
26
WHAT WORKS? – Transition to employment for young people with learning disabilities
... young people with learning disabilities at transition among SENCOs, teachers, careers advisors, social workers and staff from ...young people will still receive conflicting advice and they ...
36
Improving access to the arts, galleries and museums for people with learning disabilities
... with learning disabilities living in the ...by learning disability specialists outside the arts – exploring the oral history of the local community of people with ...for people with ...
45
Social capital, social inclusion and services for people with learning disabilities
... between people with learning disabilities are important, of course, but social inclusion theorists envisage a society in which bridging relationships span all the structural divisions in society ...
14
Title: Mobile Devices and People with Learning Disabilities: A Literature Review
... Mobile technology is becoming ubiquitous. Statistica [1] reports, for example, that “over 28% of the world‟s total population owned a smart device in 2016 … expected to increase to 37% by 2020. In the same year ...
10
Review of transitions to adult services for young people with learning disabilities
... Some people with learning disabilities also have physical and/or sensory impairments, mental health difficulties, conditions such as Down’s syndrome or cerebral ...among people with a ...
82