
Learning Disability
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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
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