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Related to learning disability:autism n. Any of various neurodevelopmental disorders that affect the ability to process information and may impede academic learning, especially in the areas of language, mathematics, and reasoning. Also calledlearning disorder. ...
Purpose – In Scotland, following the closure of long stay learning disability hospitals in 2005, focus has shifted on to developing robust community services/resources to cater for the healthcare needs of people with learning disabilities. In the absence of robust in-patient services, a small ...
University of London, said people with learning disabilities were largely invisible within hospitals, which meant their additional needs were not recognised or understood by staff. "Our study found many examples of good practice, but also many where the safety of ...
Readmissions to learning disability hospitals: A study of failed discharge due to physical health problems, relapsing mental illness and severe behavioural problems.A total of 154 people with learning disabilities who were discharged from hospital to community care were studied (using information from ...
I am not entirely sure that this is a distinctly unique feature of the UK, and other countries seem to have similar challenges in asserting the integrity of rights for people with learning (Developmental) disabilities (Disability Justice, 2019); but this editorial is confined to issues closer ...
I started off working in one of the learning disability institutions and since then I have seen a huge change in the profession. We no longer have the long-stay hospitals and we have developed an infrastructure of community-based services. This has provided … Read the full-text article, ...
There has been a call to increase the quantity and quality of medical education in the area of intellectual disability in order to improve practitioners' p... Nicholas Lennox,Justine Diggens - 《Australian Journal of Mental Retardation》 被引量: 55发表: 1999年 The European Union of Medical Spec...
SM Gibbs,MJ Brown,WJ Muir - 《Journal of Intellectual Disability Research》 被引量: 124发表: 2010年 The experiences of adults with intellectual disabilities and their carers in general hospitals: a focus group study Background聽 People with intellectual disabilities (ID) have higher levels of heal...
A Study of the Use of an Acute Inpatient Unit for Adults with Learning Disability and Mental Health Problems in Leicestershire, UK The study describes the nature and outcomes of admissions to a 12-bedded specialist assessment and treatment unit that admits adults with all degrees of le... M ...