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Taking service providers to court: people with learning disabilities and Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 [PDF]
, 2009 Despite evidence of poor service provision for people with learning disabilities in the UK (e.g. DRC, Code of practice. Rights of access: services to the public, public authority functions, private clubs and premises. London: The Stationery Office, 2006;
Lerpiniere, Jennifer, Stalker, Kirsten
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An audit of the quality of inpatient care for adults with learning disability in the UK [PDF]
, 2016 OBJECTIVES: To audit patient hospital records to evaluate the performance of acute general and mental health services in delivering inpatient care to people with learning disability and explore the influence of organisational factors on the quality of ...
Burnell, M +9 more
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Visual Rhyme Judgment in Adults With Mild-to-Severe Hearing Loss
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Adults with poorer peripheral hearing have slower phonological processing speed measured using visual rhyme tasks, and it has been suggested that this is due to fading of phonological representations stored in long-term memory.
Mary Rudner +5 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Almost all studies on neonatal imitation to date seem to have focused on typically developing children, and we thus lack information on the early imitative abilities of children who follow atypical developmental trajectories.
Mikael Heimann, Emil Holmer
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Occupational therapy for adults with intellectual disabilities and sensory processing challenges: a Delphi study exploring practice within acute assessment and treatment units [PDF]
Irish Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2021 Purpose – Lack of research means guidance regarding the most effective sensory interventions for adults with intellectual disabilities is limited. Preliminary consensus evidence was created by gathering experienced occupational therapists’ views on ...
Helen Justice, David Haines, Jon Wright
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Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2014 The UK Biobank offers cross-sectional epidemiological data collected on > 500 000 individuals in the UK between 40 and 70 years of age. Using the UK Biobank data, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of functional hearing loss and hearing
Jerker eRönnberg +3 more
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Learning Disabilities and Serious Crime – Sex Offences [PDF]
, 2009 This review paper follows on from two previous reviews of the literature with regard to, firstly, learning disability and murder and, secondly, learning disability and arson.
Read, Elspeth, Read, Fiona
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Specific learning disability [PDF]
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2018 AbstractSpecific learning disabilities (SLD) have an impact on discrete areas of academic function. They result in a level of difficulty that is unexpected when considered in the context of a student's overall intellectual and academic competence. A common example is dyslexia, an SLD that affects the acquisition of literacy.
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Frontiers in NeurosciencePurposeIndividuals with acquired hearing impairment often experience declines in phonological processing abilities, a phenomenon thought to be mediated by working memory capacity (WMC).
Ruijing Ning +7 more
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COVID-19 deaths in people with intellectual disability in the UK and Ireland: descriptive study
BJPsych Open, 2020 Background Rapid spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected people with intellectual disability disproportionately. Existing data does not provide enough information to understand factors associated with increased deaths in those with ...
Bhathika Perera +16 more
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