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cover image - Learning Disabilities - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource,6th Edition
ISBN: 9780702062056
Copyright: 2011
Publication Date: 04-30-2012
Page Count: 592
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
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Learning Disabilities - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 6th Edition

by Helen Atherton, BSc(Hons), PhD, RNLD and Debbie Crickmore, BSc(Hons) MSc RNLD

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Learning Disabilities - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource,6th Edition
ISBN: 9780702062056
Copyright: 2011
Publication Date: 04-30-2012
Page Count: 592
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
List Price: $93.99
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Learning Disabilities: Toward Inclusion (formerly edited by Bob Gates) is one of the leading textbooks in this field. It offers real ways to improve quality of experience for people with learning disabilities in all areas of life.

This new edition brings together a comprehensive and coherent collection of material from eminent authors with a wealth of professional backgrounds and roles. Its contemporary focus reflects practice developments including the impact of changing policy and legislation on the nature and configuration of services.

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    • The leading textbook for carers of people with learning disabilities
    • A comprehensive overview of the field of learning disabilities care
    • Well-written accessible content
    • Activities, case studies, diagrams and further resources including useful web links
    • the embedding of key themes across chapters to draw diverse material into an integrated whole. These are: person-centredness, values, the reality of practice, the range of ability, the range of services and national and international perspectives.

    • chapters on advocacy, personal narratives and life story, inclusive research, risk, safeguarding, sensory awareness, epilepsy and end-of-life care

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  • 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

  • Helen Atherton, BSc(Hons), PhD, RNLD, Lecturer in Nursing, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK and Debbie Crickmore, BSc(Hons) MSc RNLD, Lecturer in Learning Disability, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, Hull, UK
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