Learning disabilities : toward inclusion /: toward inclusion. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Helen L. Atherton, Debbie J. Crickmore ; forewords by Jonathan Evans, Eamon Shanley.
• Editors: Atherton, Helen; Crickmore, Debbie J
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: Section 1 Living with learning disabilities -- 1. The social construction of learning disability / Karl Nunkoosing -- 2. Causes of learning disability / Debbie Watson -- 3. Eugenics: the creation and maintenance of difference / Helen Atherton -- 4. Values-based support / Malcolm Richardson -- 5. Ethical issues / Ruth Northway -- Section 2 Implementing values-based support -- 6. Let me speak -- facilitating communication / Karen Bunning -- 7. Advocacy / Ruth Garbutt -- 8. Personal narrative and life story / Tony Dennison and Steve Mee -- 9. Person-centred strategies for planning / Jo Lay and Liane Kirk -- 10. Inclusive research: people with learning disabilities can be the "artists of their lives" / Anna Marriott and Val Williams -- 11. Positive risk taking / Andy Alaszewski and Helen Alaszewski -- 12. Safeguarding against abuse and harm / Caroline White -- Section 3 Overcoming challenges to good health -- 13. Enabling good health / Kim Scarborough and Matthew Godsell -- 14. Physical health / Caroline Dalton O'Connor, Maria Caples and Lynne Marsh. Contents note continued: 15. Sensory awareness / Debbie Crickmore -- 16. Epilepsy / Heather Gregory -- 17. Mental health problems in people with learning disabilities / Laurence Taggart -- 18. Challenging behaviour / Michael Wolverson -- 19. Working with offenders / Jenny Talbot -- 20. Autism spectrum conditions / Tom Berney and Lisa Belshaw -- Section 4 Facilitating transition across the lifespan -- 21. Working with people to make choices / Simon Duffy -- 22. Working with families / Neil James -- 23. Childhood / Mary Dearing -- 24. Leisure and friendships / Roy McConkey -- 25. Education for children and young people with learning disabilities / David S. Stewart -- 26. Employment / Julie Ridley and Susan Hunter -- 27.A place to live / Julia Fitzpatrick -- 28. Sexual and personal relationships / Peter Oakes and Ros Davies -- 29. Growing older: meeting the needs of people with learning disabilities / Rob Jenkins and Marion Steff -- 30. End of life / Sue Read.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 569 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 616.85889; Learning disabilities; People with disabilities; Students with disabilities; People with mental disabilities -- Rehabilitation; Mental retardation -- Nursing; People with mental disabilities -- Services for; Learning disabilities; Mental retardation -- Nursing; People with disabilities; People with mental disabilities -- Rehabilitation; People with mental disabilities -- Services for; Students with disabilities; Learning Disorders -- rehabilitation; Education, Special; Social Support; HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General; MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL / Diseases; MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL / Internal Medicine; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780702042850; 0702042854; 9780702047015; 0702047015
• Related ISBNs: 9780702051876
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.