Learning disability : a life cycle approach to valuing people / Gordon Grant ... [et al.].
Contributor(s): Grant, Gordon
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BookPublisher: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2005Description: xix, 757 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0335214398; 9780335214396; 9780335218264.Subject(s): Learning disabilities | Learning disabled | Health and Wellbeing | Disability: social aspects | Nursing & ancillary servicesDDC classification: 371.9 | 362.2 LEA Summary: 'Learning Disability' uses a life-cycle approach to show how those with learning disabilities can he helped most at different stages in their lives.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book adopts a life cycle approach in order to reveal important dimensions in the lives of people with learning disabilities and the effects upon them and their families. It tackles issues about transitions in people's lives and how services, professionals, advocates, allies and wider communities of interest can support people with learning disabilities in achieving healthy and valued lives. Different voices are heard in this book, but prominence has been given to the views and experiences of people with learning disabilities and their families. Each major life stage section of the book begins with one such narrative-based chapter, followed by chapters that develop practice, policy and theoretical themes that inform an evidence-based approach to supporting people.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Learning Disability' uses a life-cycle approach to show how those with learning disabilities can he helped most at different stages in their lives.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Part One The Construction of Learning Disability
- Narratives and people with learning disabilities Chapter From vagabonds to Victorian values: the social construction of a disability identity
- The roots of biomedical diagnosis
- Critiques of segregation and eugenics Learning disability and the law Models of service delivery
- Maintaining a commitment to quality
- Advocacy, campaigning and people with learning difficulties
- Part Two Childhood
- Rights, Risks & Responsibilities
- Children with learning disabilities talking about their everyday lives
- Breaking 'bad' news
- Experiences of family care: bridging discontinuities over the life course
- Promoting healthy lifestyles: physical and sensory needs
- Communication and people with learning disabilities
- Part Three Independence
- Adolescents and the Younger Adult
- Adolescents and younger adults: narrative accounts Independence, reciprocity and resilience
- Managing independent living: safeguarding adults with learning disabilities against abuse
- Promoting healthy lifestyles - challenging behaviour (Almost) everything you wanted to know about sexuality and learning disability but were always too afraid to ask
- Supporting people with learning disabilities when they come into contact with the criminal justice system
- Promoting independence through work
- Counselling people with a learning disability
- Part Four Social Inclusion and Adulthood
- You have to prove yourself all the time: people with learning disabilities parenting
- Promoting friendships and developing social networks
- Enabling and supporting person-centred approaches
- Culture and ethnicity: developing accessible and appropriate services for health and social care
- Work, learning & leisure?
- Only if you are lucky!
- The journey towards fulfilling lives for people with learning disabilities
- Promoting healthy lifestyles: mental health and illness
- Making a life in the community: is intensive personalised support enough?
- Engaging communities of interest
- Part Five Citizenship and the Older Adult
- A late picking: narratives of older people with learning disabilities
- Growing old: adapting to change and realising a sense of belonging, continuity and purpose
- Promoting healthy lifestyles: end of life issues
- Healthy and successful ageing Research and emancipation: prospects and problems
- Index