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Familiarity and strangeness: a case study of one woman with learning disabilities in the 1940s-1950s

27 March 2017

Learning Disability Practice

Evidence & practice

Examining the past reveals links with the present and enables reflection on how things have changed and what has remained the same. This article relates the story of...

Celebrating a classic text: The Cloak of Competence revisited

20 September 2018

Learning Disability Practice

Professional issues

This article celebrates one of the most important books in the history of intellectual disability, The Cloak of Competence: Stigma in the Lives of the Mentally...

The management of sexual abuse: learning from a 1940s case study

26 April 2016

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

Women with learning disabilities are vulnerable to sexual abuse and their abusers often go unpunished. In this article David O’Driscoll and Jan Walmsley discuss a...

Who makes crucial decisions on reproduction and contraception?

01 October 2012

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

This article describes the findings of an online survey exploring contraception for people with learning disabilities. The survey reveals that this is a complex...

Contraceptive choices for women with learning disabilities

29 February 2016

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

This article reports the results of interviews with 19 women with learning disabilities about their experiences of making decisions about contraception. It builds...

The experiences of women with learning disabilities on contraception choice

27 October 2016

Primary Health Care

Evidence & practice

A team from the Open University interviewed women with learning disabilities on their experiences of making decisions about contraception. The research revealed that...

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