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A parent’s pathway to helping her children gain their independence

01 May 2012

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

Since the death of her husband in December 2001, Christine Noble, who has a borderline learning disability, has been provided with support in the home. Christine’s...

Lifespan or separate: which service is best?

01 December 2003

Learning Disability Practice

Practice & research

There are about 210,000 people with severe learning disabilities in England, while about 1.2 million have mild or moderate disabilities (DoH 2001). There is some...

assessing parenting skills when working with parents with learning disabilities

01 May 2005

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

Growing numbers of people with learning disabilities are now choosing to live an ‘ordinary life’ and have children (Booth and Booth 1994). Meanwhile, the number of...

Training for parents with learning disabilities

01 February 2005

Primary Health Care

General

Whereas there used to be a general consensus that people with learning disabilities could not and should not become parents (Thurman et al 1985), growing numbers of...

young people’s perceptions of the accessibility of general NHS hospital services: a follow-up study

01 November 2005

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

The Valuing People White Paper (Department of Health 2001a) states that: ‘Children with disabilities have exactly the same health needs as other children, in...

What is the community team learning disability?

01 June 2003

Primary Health Care

General

The NHS and Community Care Act (DoH 1990) has radically changed the services available to people with learning disabilities. It emphasised normalisation and...

access to community services for black and minority ethnic groups: increasing staff awareness

01 May 2006

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

The Valuing People White Paper identified that ‘services and support to people with learning disabilities from minority ethnic communities are failing to meet the...

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