Providing positive behaviour support to improve a client’s quality of life

Lynne Webber, Karen Major, Carla Condello, Kerrie Hancox

A healthy diet to reduce the risk of dementia in people with a learning disability

Lynette Harper

Learning disabilities and mental health: families’ experiences of hospitalisation

Joseph Jan Szablowski

Using the Picture Exchange Communication System with families of children with autism

Louise Cooper

Staying focused will move our profession forward

Consider the variations

Andrea Page, Melanie Wakeman

Future strategies for behaviours that challenge

Christine Walker

The Boy from Hell: Life with a Child with ADHD

Amanda Hood

Calming Your Anxious Child

Colin Hughes

Keep it simple and unambiguous

Wendy Johnson

Dealing with trauma

David O’Driscoll

‘Nurses are ready for the MBA – so let’s bring it on’

Jill Aylott, Lesley Montisci

Spare the restraint

Sarah Leitch, Tom Evans

Institutions and people who have learning disabilities

Stacey Atkinson

Testicular cancer causes high death rates among men with learning disabilities

Stacey Atkinson

Fragile X and autism: treatments for hypersensitivity

Stacey Atkinson

Ireland leads the way in understanding the needs of an ageing population

Jennifer Trueland

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September launch for NHS Improvement venture to find most helpful trusts

Northern Ireland honour

Data reveal four sickness concerns

‘Devastating impact’ of £400m back pay bill for sleep-in carers

Clarion call to protect people with early-onset dementia

Chris Longhurst

Ageing population highlights travesty of health inequalities

Christine Walker