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Showing 1 to 20 of 203 for “"Learning Disability"”.
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A learning disability center
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Gender, caring and learning disability
… who are labelled as dependants, adults with learning difficulties. Through biographical interviews and documentary research the author examines how care for people with learning difficulties has developed over time in one local area; and the understandings people on the receiving end have of …
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Learning disability survey : the affective domain
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Learning disability survey : the affective domain
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Making a difference? Understanding the working lives of learning disability nurses; 30 years of learning disability nursing in England
… explore the lived experience of the careers of learning disability nurses in England. The methodology was informed by Hermeneutic Phenomenology, and the study design utilised narrative interviewing techniques based on an adapted model of the Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method (Wengraf …
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Ethnicity, learning disability, and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 : a social constructionist ethnography of an integrated learning disability service
… operationalised within an integrated statutory learning disability service and examines how the legislation IS manifested in everyday lived experience of an ethnic minority. In England and Wales, the MCA established a framework for assessing cognitive decision-making ability with mental capacity …
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Collaboration practices in Intellectual (Learning) Disability Services’ multidisciplinary teams
… teams (MDT). Professionals in intellectual (learning) disability (I(L)D) services are advised by NHS England to collaborate in MDTs to address the multiple and complex needs of clients. However, clinical guidance for healthcare professionals uses the term collaboration without explaining what …
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MICROAGGRESSIONS TOWARDS INDIVIDUALS WITH LEARNING DISABILITY WITHIN THE COLLEGE SETTING
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Learning disability mircroaggressions refer to the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights and mistreatment which convey a derogatory feeling or message to individuals with a learning disability across various settings. Learning disability microaggressions may …
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Hand-in-hand? A playwright’s journey into learning-disability theatre.
… ventriloquism when making work for and with learning-disabled people? How can the practical demands of theatre be adjusted to give learning-disabled performers fair and equal access to theatre-making? What is the ‘proper’ goal of this work in terms of audience and critical reception? These …
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Response to Intervention and Specific Learning Disability Identification Practices in Kentucky
<p>Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) have historically been difficult to define and measure which has led to uncertainty and controversy. The current study explored the practices of identifying specific learning disabilities in Kentucky by surveying school psychologist practitioners in the …
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An investigation into the advocacy role of the learning disability nurse
This study explored the advocacy role of learning disability nurses. Specifically its objectives were to find out whether nurses advocate for their clients with learning difficulties and, if so, how they do this; to explore any problems which nurses have with the advocacy role and to consider their …
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Identification of specific learning disability in New Jersey: an illuminative evaluation
… (2004) with regard to identification of specific learning disability (SLD). However, it is difficult to find research examining the diagnostic practices for SLD within various states. Investigators in the present study aim to isolate the significant features of practices used to identify SLD in …
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Attitudes of Support Workers in Learning Disability Services towards Counselling Psychology
… to view counselling psychology and people with learning disabilities from a pluralistic standpoint. The focus of the research is to understand the attitudes of support workers towards counselling psychology and this particular client group. It attempts to investigate through mixed methods the …
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Skin conductance and reaction time correlates of learning disability in children
… and galvanic skin responses (GSRs) of learning disabled (LD) children and controls were compared during an habituation task and a simple reaction time task, each preceded by a rest period. The two tasks were methodologically equivalent except that only the latter required an active …
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An analysis of the discourses and discursive devices used to represent learning disability in the stories told in the classroom to students by learning disability nurse teachers
… the complexities of the social construction of learning disability. The focus is upon the ways in which learning disability nurse teachers represent their experiences of learning disability nurse practice in stories. The stories focussed upon in this study were identified in a series of 20 audio …
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Early identification of learning disability in children of the Cape Flats area
… to diagnostic evaluation, in order to identify learning disability children attending schools in the Cape Flats area. This practical issue needs to be addressed despite the controversy that rages concerning the theoretical aspects of learning disability, its problematic measurement issues and …
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Psychological interventions in forensic learning disability services : a focus on anger and aggression
Difficulties with emotion regulation are reported as commonly experienced by people with intellectual disabilities (PWID). These difficulties can lead to the involvement of PWID with forensic services, and the requirement for them to undertake psychological therapies aimed at improving their …
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