Simon Duffy tells Thelma Agnew how his background in philosophy has helped him to challenge people’s assumptions about what people with learning disabilities can achieve as citizens

‘Positive choices’, University of Nottingham, April 21

New guide on the block

Internet review

CBT for people with learning disabilities

Duncan Mitchell

Evaluation of advocacy schemes

Preparation for school

Children’s attitudes to disability

Resources

Conferences

Different croaks for different folks

Lorraine Regan

Asperger’s syndrome and high achievement (some very remarkable people)

Alex McClimens

Mental health in learning disabilities: a training resource and reader

Helena M Priest

Sequences: 6 & 8-step for Adults and Sequences: 6 & 8-step for children

Karen McKenzie

Special brothers and sisters

Lorraine Regan

Telling It Ourselves: an oral history

Ghazala Mir

The psychiatry of intellectual disability

George Murray

The asperger love guide

Steve Harper

Tales of route versatile and talented performer, rode pillion on a Harley down Route 66, which 66

attitudes towards sexuality: a pilot study in Ireland

Elaine Drummond

Developing health resources with the help of people with Down syndrome

Lynda Russell

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

Amy Hebblethwaite, Alison Woods, Anne Stokle, Annette Hames, Ruth Macha, Lucy Moss, Sarah Wharton

Email interview

Martha Leary

People

Students everywhere are in the same boat

Kate Clayton

Nurses ‘too English’ about achievements

Major survey benefited from input from those who really know

Looking at care from the forensic angle

Post-war learning disability nurses not motivated by altruism, study finds

Ian McMillan

DH to give recognition where it’s due

News

Lottery funds to help seek answers to self-harm

Initiative will help councils ‘get to grips’ with spending

Disenfranchised groups are encouraged to use their vote

News

CSCI launches booklet and website to give the best advice

DH calls for more inclusive approach in research studies

Ian McMillan

Challenge and change

Professor Ruth Northway