Learning Disabilities: Towards Inclusion

Section 1: Living with learning disabilities 1 The social construction of learning disability 2 Causes of learning disability 3 Eugenics: the creation and maintenance of difference 4 Values-based support 5 Ethical issues Section 2: Implementing values-based support 6 Let me speak - facilitating communication 7 Advocacy 8 Personal narrative and life story 9 Person-centred strategies for planning 10 Inclusive research: we are the artists of our lives 11 Positive risk taking 12 Safeguarding against abuse and harm Section 3: Overcoming challenges to good health 13 Enabling good health 14 Physical health 15 Sensory awareness 16 Epilepsy 17 Mental health problems in people with learning disabilities 18 Challenging behaviour 19 Working with offenders 20 Autistic spectrum conditions Section 4: Facilitating transition across the lifespan 21 Working with people to make choices 22 Working with families 23 Childhood 24 Leisure and friendships 25 Education for children and young people with learning disabilities 26 Employment 27 A place to live 28 Sexual and personal relationships 29 Growing older: meeting the needs of people with learning disabilities 30 End of Life