Helping People with a Learning Disability Explore Choice

Eve and Neil Jackson
Illustrated by Tim Baker

Following the experiences of five adults with learning disabilities and their carers, this resource comprises a series of short stories focusing on different areas of decision-making. Sections for the carer explore the issues raised in the story, while illustrations help the reader to engage imaginatively with the stories and the issues involved. more »

Keyword: intellectual disabilities

Disability Politics and Community Care

Mark Priestley

Disability Politics and Community Care encourages health and welfare professionals and policy makers to start working much more closely with disabled people themselves. He presents practical suggestions for the changes necessary for the proposed reorganisation of service provision which will re-define direct work with disabled people. more »

Keywords: community care, disability

Disability Voice

Towards an Enabling Education

Mal Leicester

The book encourages equal opportunities for disabled people by promoting the practice of enabling education, a 'disability-aware' education that caters for everyone's educational needs. Interviews with disabled people are also included, giving their own recommendations for educators and policy makers. more »

Keyword: disability

Growing Up with Disability

Edited by Carol Robinson and Kirsten Stalker

Growing Up with Disability encompasses a wide range of perspectives on childhood impairment and its social implications. The book adopts a child-centred approach, stressing the importance of communicating with disabled children, and includes interviews and pieces of their own writing. The book explores how such children can best be protected. more »

Keyword: disability

Housing Options for Disabled People

Edited by Ruth Bull
Preface by Baroness Masham

This book describes the processes involved in rehousing or adapting existing accomodation, identifying the professionals who may contribute and highlighting the role of the occupational therapist. The book will be of use to a range of professionals, including occupational therapists, architects, social workers and more. more »

Keywords: disability, housing, social care

An A-Z of Community Care Law

Michael Mandelstam

Written to meet the need for concise explanation of the key legal issues in community care, this comprehensive A to Z gives the reader immediate access to the definitions they are seeking, and is the first book to summarise systematically many of the recent legal cases. more »

Keywords: community care, disability law, law, reference, social care, social work, social work law

Empowerment in Everyday Life

Learning Disability

Edited by Paul Ramcharan, Gwyneth Roberts, Gordon Grant and John Borland

This book takes a unique approach to empowerment, starting by examining the lives and relationships of people with learning disabilities, their families and friends. Questions are then asked about how policy making, service provision and state legislation might be implemented in ways which would provide for an empowered life and lifestyle. more »

Keywords: intellectual disabilities, social policy

Equipment for Older or Disabled People and the Law

Michael Mandelstam

This book explains the provision, both law and practice, of equipment and home adaptations to assist older or disabled people in daily living. The range of items covered is great, from alarms to artificial limbs, baths to bedrooms, chopping boards to crutches, electronic toothbrushes to environmental controls, and walking frames to wheelchairs. more »

Keywords: disability, disability law, older people, social work law

Day Services for People with Learning Disabilities

Edited by Philip Seed

In this book, case studies are presented to illustrate the functioning of community care to provide services for people with learning difficulties/disabilities and with intellectual and multiple disabilities. Further chapters give consideration to the issues concerned with the promotion of independent living. more »

Keyword: intellectual disabilities

Invisible Victims

Crime and Abuse Against People with Learning Disabilities

Christopher Williams

Invisible Victims outlines the range and nature of crimes against people with learning difficulties, and the way the law does - or should - relate to these crimes. It discusses the sources of victimization and deals with prevention specifically from the perspective of learning disabilities. more »

Keywords: intellectual disabilities, offenders

Children with Language Impairments

An Introduction

Morag L. Donaldson

This book is an important summary of current awareness of language impairments in children. It is argued that approaches to intervention need to be geared to the strengths and weaknesses of the individual child and therefore that they must be closely integrated with thorough, ongoing assessment procedures. more »

Keywords: disability, intellectual disabilities, speech and language therapy

Developing Personal Safety Skills in Children with Disabilities

Freda Briggs

Part I of this book provides the information needed for an understanding of personal safety skills, and the considerations peculiar to children with special needs. Possible approaches for their protection are introduced. Part II provides practical ideas for developing safety skills in children and young people with mild to severe disabilities. more »

Keywords: children, disability, intellectual disabilities

Home at Last

How Two Young Women with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Achieved Their Own Home

Pat Fitton, Carol O'Brien and Jean Willson

This book is based on the conviction that people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities have the right to an independent and meaningful lifestyle. Written by the parents of two young women with disabilities, it follows the attempts to help them achieve their dream of a home of their own, supported by twenty-four hour care. more »

Keywords: disability, housing, intellectual disabilities

Young Adults with Special Needs

Assessment, Law and Practice - Caught in the Acts

John Friel

An essential handbook for parents, carers and educators of young people with special needs, this companion volume to the highly acclaimed Children with Special Needs covers the assessment of and procedure for young adults. more »

Keywords: adolescence, disability, disability law

Language Development in Children with Disability and Special Needs

Performative Communication

Irene Johansson
Translated by Eva Thomas

This guide offers a programme to encourage language acquisition, and teach the child to use appropriate language and communication in differing situations. The author's early intervention programmes are widely practised in Sweden, and are based on the belief that language and communication develop as a key part of the child's overall development. more »

Keywords: children, communication, intellectual disabilities

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