Handicap and learning disabilities

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Secondary Handicap & Learning Disability: A Component Analysis [PDF]

Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2008
The term ‘secondary handicap’ is frequently encountered in services for people with disabilities. The term has its origins in Freud’s original description of secondary gain (Freud, 1901), and Winnicott’s description of the ‘false self’ (Winnicott, 1965).
Jones, Robert, Harrison, Carmel, Ball, Melany +2 more
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Assessment of fertility regulation in persons with a learning disability (mental handicap) - antecedents

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1993
SummaryThe genesis and subsequent activities of the eugenic movement are reviewed. There developed a strong belief that the main causes of retardation were genetic and hence sterilisation and segregation were justified as a means of controlling the numbers of people with learning disabilities.
Meera Roy, J. Corbett, J. Newton, A. Roy
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Women with a learning disability (mental handicap) referred for sterilisation; assessment and follow up

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1993
Summary Nine girls and women with learning disability (mental handicap) referred consecutively for contraceptive sterilisation were assessed using a semi-structured interview, the Disability Assessment Schedule, The Socialisation and Sexuality items of the Adaptive Behaviour Scale and ‘Not A Child Anymore’.
Meera Roy, J. Corbett, J. Newton, A. Roy
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Referrals of persons with a learning disability (mental handicap) for fertility regulation. A regional survey

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1993
Summary A retrospective survey of all requests for sterilisation made to all consultant psychiatrists practising in the field of learning disability (mental handicap) in one regional health authority (West Midlands) was carried out, covering five years. The response rate was good. It was found that parental involvement was high in the families referred.
Meera Roy, J. Corbett, J. Newton, A. Roy
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Analyzing the Impacts of Developed Handicapped-Based Assistive Software on Students with Learning Disabilities

Journal of Education Research and Library Practice
Several assistive software have been developed to empower handicapped-students in order for them to engage adequately with educational contents by participating fully in classroom activities and eventually achieve academic success like their peer groups who are not suffering from any learning disability.
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Mental handicap or learning disability [PDF]