Learning Disability
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2010
537 pages
978-0-335-23844-6 (ISBN)
Description
With its spread of chapters covering key issues across the life cycle this text has established itself as the foundational primer for those studying the lived experiences of people with learning disabilities and their families, and outcomes achieved through services and support systems.
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Content
- Front cover
- Half title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the editors
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: why the life cycle?
- Part One - The construction of learning disability
- 1 Narratives and people with learning disabilities
- 2 Social constructions and social models: disability explained?
- 3 The roots of biomedical diagnosis
- 4 Learning disability and the law
- 5 Models of service delivery
- 6 Maintaining a commitment to quality
- 7 Advocacy, campaigning and people with learning difficulties
- Part Two - Childhood and early parenting
- 8 Children with learning disabilities talking about their everyday lives
- 9 Communication with children and young people
- 10 The importance of aetiology of intellectual disability
- 11 Breaking the news and early intervention
- 12 Addressing the physical and sensory needs of children with profound and multiple learning disabilities
- 13 Family care: experiences and expectations
- Part Three - Adolescence and transitions to adulthood
- 14 Adolescents and younger adults - narrative accounts
- 15 Transition: a moment of change
- 16 Safeguarding adults with learning disabilities against abuse
- 17 Promoting healthy lifestyles - challenging behaviour
- 18 (Almost) everything you ever wanted to know about sexuality and learning disability but were always too afraid to ask
- 19 The sexual lives of women with learning disabilities
- 20 Supporting people with learning disabilities within the criminal justice system
- 21 Independence, reciprocity and resilience
- 22 Personalizing learning disability services
- Part Four - Adult identities and community inclusion
- 23 You have to prove yourself all the time: people with learning disabilities as parents
- 24 Promoting friendships and developing social networks
- 25 Enabling and supporting person-centred planning
- 26 Culture and ethnicity: developing accessible and appropriate services for health and social care
- 27 Work, supported employment and leisure
- 28 Promoting healthy lifestyles: mental health
- 29 Retrieving lost identities: men with severe intellectual disabilities and mental health problems in long-term care
- 30 Engaging communities of interest
- Part Five - Ageing and end-of-life issues
- 31 A late picking: narratives of older people with learning disabilities
- 32 Growing old: adapting to change and realizing a sense of belonging, continuity and purpose
- 33 End-of-life issues
- 34 Healthy and successful ageing
- 35 Research and emancipation: prospects and problems
- Index
- Back cover
