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Help wanted

01 June 2007

Learning Disability Practice

Interactive

I am undertaking a piece of work whose main aim is to describe what might be called non-traditional or emerging roles and jobs of learning disability nurses. These...

Take your partner…

01 October 2002

Learning Disability Practice

Editorial

Partnership working can be a highly rewarding experience for staff involved in learning disability services as well as for service users themselves. However,...

Making the grade

01 March 2001

Learning Disability Practice

Editorial

I recently had to fill in a form and list my ‘O’ and ‘A’ level results and grades. It has been some time since that little strip of paper fell on to the doormat, so...

Easy guide to the human rights act 1998: implications for people with learning disabilities

01 March 2001

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

Although the Human Rights Act was incorporated into British law last October there has been precious little discussion in the press about its implications for one of...

Planning for success

01 September 2001

Learning Disability Practice

Editorial

If the timetable for the White Paper on learning disability is going according to plan, we shall shortly receive the government’s guidance on person centred...

Powerful partner

01 September 2001

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

The new White Paper, Valuing People (Department of Health 2001), sets an ambitious and challenging agenda for those working with people with learning disabilities....

Bullying in adulthood: asessing the bllies and their vctims

01 March 2002

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

Peter Randall’s earlier book, Adult Bullying, helped to bring attention to this worrying problem and, in this latest offering, the author has again succeeded in...

No stroll in the park

01 June 2002

Learning Disability Practice

Editorial

Someone told me the other day that there is a public park in Harrow that has the only fully accessible children’s roundabout in the country. This is good news for...

A new perpespective

01 April 1998

Learning Disability Practice

Editorial

WELCOME TO the first issue of Learning Disability Practice. We hope you find it informative, stimulating and relevant to your work.

Encouraging autonomy

01 November 1999

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

THIS IS a publication that the field of learning disability has needed for some time. Clearly written, well set out and illustrated with examples of good practice,...