People with learning disabilities: resettlement issues

An economic analysis of the resettlement of people with mild learning disabilities and challenging behaviour.

New models of care are needed following the closure of long-stay mental handicap hospitals. Based on an evaluation of a recently established assessment and treatment service in south-east England, this paper is concerned with the costs and likely benefits of different patterns of services for people with mild learning disabilities and severely challenging behaviour. Different models of provisio...

Working with people with learning disabilities.

Designing virtual learning environments for people with learning disabilities: usability issues

The Virtual Reality Applications Research Team (VIRART) has been developing communication and experiential Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) for people with learning disabilities since 1991. As a human-factors-based research group, we have always been aware of usability issues and the importance of consideration of user needs and abilities in any design development process. However, the infa...

Caring for people with learning disabilities.

Nurses are ideally placed to provide an individualised service to people with learning disabilities living at home or in residential accommodation. Acting as key change agents, nurses can encourage clients to live as independently as possible in their own communities and can improve the quality of life offered to individuals and their families. This unit is relevant to UKCC PREP categories of C...

Epilepsy in people with learning disabilities.

16 his article reports on an on-going novel feasibility randomised controlled trial [RCT] that is being undertaken to inform the design of a definitive RCT, which will assess the impact of Getting on with Epilepsy, from the ‘Books Beyond Words’ series, as an intervention for people with learning disabilities who have epilepsy. The intervention itself is novel in a number of ways. For example, t...