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Sexuality and learning disabilities

Nursing Standard, 2003
Sexuality and sexual health are issues that have been neglected in nursing practice and in the literature. This literature review discusses how the sexuality and sexual health of clients with learning disabilities are perceived and addressed in contemporary society.Sexuality and challenging behaviours, such as self-harm, can be linked and by denying or
Darren Savarimuthu, Toni Bunnell
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Learning disabilities

Emergency Nurse, 2010
Easyhealth, at www.easyhealth.org.uk , provides a wide range of online educational material, including short films and a list of useful contacts to help healthcare professionals provide timely care to people with learning disabilities who attend emergency departments (EDs) or acute hospitals.
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Learning disabilities

Nursing Standard, 1994
The West Cheshire NHS Trust has produced a video entitled Valued Lives. Presented in two parts, it aims to.
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Learning Disabilities: An Overview

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1973
The expression "learning disabilities" is widely used and easily understood, but it may be applied to various handicaps. The author discusses the details of one particular handicap—reading disability—with implications that apply to the whole group in general.
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Children with learning disabilities

Pediatric Anesthesia, 2008
SummaryChildren with learning disabilities can present numerous challenges in the acute hospital setting. This review article examines the causes and presentations of learning disability, and considers some of the management strategies employed when these children present for surgery.
Simon Courtman, D. Mumby
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Learning Disabilities: An Overview [PDF]

Seminars in Neurology, 1991
Children with learning disabilities form a large pool of patients seen by neurologists for help in understanding the disability and deciding which forms of remediation are appropriate. Learning disabilities may accompany a large variety of other neurologic disabilities, but the usual child with such a problem is in excellent health.
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Approach to learning disability

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2001
Learning disabilities (LD) is one of the important causes of poor academic performance in school going children. Learning disabilities are developmental disorders that usually manifest during the period of normal education. These disabilities create a significant gap between the true potential and day to day performance of an individual.
Sunil Karande, Shubhangi Upadhye, Sarika Kalantre, Sanjeev R. Ahuja, Madhuri Kulkarni   +4 more
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Specific learning disabilities [PDF]

Bulletin of the Orton Society, 1977
Though specific learning disabilities have probably existed as long as human learning itself, they were "discovered" only at the turn of the 19th century, and have become a pressing social problem in the developed countries only since the 1950s. As the demands on education in the developed countries increase, so does the problem these disabilities ...
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Pica with Learning Disability

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2002
In patients with learning disabilities, behaviour that is potentially self-injurious poses a formidable challenge. A multidisciplinary approach may be the first strategy.
Brian Fitzgerald, Pardeep Grewal
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Learning Disabilities

Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative, 2018
Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative, Vol 11 No 3 (1977)
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