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Small steps forward

01 February 2009

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

Few books that exist on the topic of child development and the importance of games and activities contain such practical and useful information as this one. This...

Supporting victims

01 March 2008

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

This book demonstrates, with pictures, how the police assist Polly, who has learning disabilities and has been the victim of an assault. The man who assaulted Polly...

Joey Goes to the Dentist

01 June 2007

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

This short book is aimed at children aged from six to ten who may be making a trip to the dentist. On handling this colourful picture book, one can’t but notice the...

Sonia’s Feeling Sad

01 October 2012

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

This is one of the Books Beyond Words series of three books of text and illustrations for people with learning disabilities. It tells the story of a woman with...

Not Stupid

01 December 2008

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

This book describes itself as ‘one mother’s fight to rescue the lives of her children from autism’. While many people don’t have to worry about day-to-day coping...

Beating dyspraxia with a hop, skip and a jump

01 April 2012

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

MANY CHILDREN with dyspraxia experience muscle weakness, especially in their fingers, hands and wrists.

The Fun with Food Programme

01 November 2007

Learning Disability Practice

Book review

The Fun with Food programme was designed to develop efficient services for groups of children with disabilities who presented with aversion to oral eating. It is...

An account of nursing a child with complex needs in the home

07 June 2012

Nursing Children and Young People

A&S Science

A children’s nurse in the Republic of Ireland describes her experience working with children with complex needs in their homes, the preferred setting for their care....

Trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome)

29 January 2019

Learning Disability Practice

Evidence and practice

Trisomy 13 is also referred to as Patau syndrome after Klaus Patau, a cytogeneticist at the University of Wisconsin. In 1960, with his associates, Patau first...

22q11.2 deletion syndrome

25 March 2019

Learning Disability Practice

Evidence and practice

The deletion syndrome 22q11.2 is classified as a rare disorder (McGarvey and Hart 2008). According to Shprintzen (2008), the phenotype has variable manifestations...