[PDF] Top 20 Exploring the experiences and perceptions of people with learning disabilities

... clinical experiences. My pre-training experiences included working as a healthcare worker within a low-secure hospital for males diagnosed with ‘LD’, ‘complex’ difficulties and offending ...with ... See full document

... young people to cafes, pubs or bowling alleys or they went walking ...with people with learning disabilities dates back to at least the late 1980s (Simons, Booth and Booth 1989) when ... See full document

... guidance, encouragement and revisions on my work have always made it possible for me to cope with my program. Thanks to Cynthia, Yolanda and my fellow Rwandan graduates (Yvonne, Pauline, Benoite and Celestin) for all of ... See full document

... for people with learning disabilities and epilepsy on their quality of ...of Learning Disabilities that was run in May 2015, where some 60 delegates from across the UK and Ireland ... See full document

... “unless people believe that they can produce desired effects and forestall undesired ones by their actions, they have little incentive to act or to persevere in the face of difficulties” ... See full document

... intellectual disabilities usually through others who can act as either supporters or ...intellectual disabilities are effectively supported with their sexual identity, whatever sexual orientation they may ... See full document

... with learning disabilities and to understand likely sources of stress within family ...a learning-disabled member, there are commonly different expectations of family life, different decisions to be ... See full document

... young people with an intellectual disability tended to be linked to their vulnerability; they were viewed as having characteristics and displaying behaviours that made them more likely to be bullied (McLaughlin, ... See full document

... of people with more profound disabilities were inadvertently excluded from the public ...complex disabilities where mental capacity legislation might ...support people with the most complex ... See full document

... older people with learning disabilities. People (with and without learning disabilities) are living longer and active ageing is the leading policy response to the demographic ... See full document

... in people who have disabilities not because of the effects of their physical and psychological limitations on their ability to be independent, but because their lives are restricted by socio-political and ... See full document

... life experiences, all contribute to the manner in which members of the family respond to different categories, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing care of an individual with a difference (Chambers & Chambers, ... See full document

... literature exploring the views and experiences of intimate relationships amongst people with intellectual ...many people with intellectual disabilities desire and benefit from intimate ... See full document

... myself, in the past, in positivist epistemological frameworks, this was mainly due to them being readily available, traditional, and dominant in the field of psychology. In this way, I naturally gravitated toward a ... See full document

... Today, people with disabilities represent 15% of the world’s population, or around one billion people, 80% of which live in low and middle-income countries ...of disabilities, while the lack ... See full document

... Behavioural principles continued to be most commonly utilised in services that supported people with CB. The underlying idea being, that the function of the behaviour should be identified and functionally ... See full document

... 2.3.1 Aspects of SFS most frequently used in situations perceived as successful To answer the first research question, the aspects of SFS that caregivers had em- ployed, as indicated in respective logbook entries and ... See full document

... what she does each year, by taking notes of what works and what doesn’t. She’s pleased with the money she’s earning as the business is growing each year and her plan is to come off tax credits etc altogether. Jenny ... See full document

... physical disabilities is frequently accompanied by increases in workload due to preparatory research, po- tential communication difficulties or specific ... See full document

... The literature search found two studies on dementia care-giving with ethnic minority groups which seemed particularly relevant to the current study. The first was a qualitative study by Godfrey and Townsend (2001) which ... See full document