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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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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

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

The Future of Children, 1996
Approximately 5% of all public school students are identified as having a learning disability (LD). LD is not a single disorder, but includes disabilities in any of seven areas related to reading, language, and mathematics. These separate types of learning disabilities frequently co-occur with one another and with social skill deficits and emotional or
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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.
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Learning disabilities

Nursing Management, 2008
Valuing People Now is the Department of Health's proposed three-year plan of priorities for the learning disability agenda, based on the Valuing People white paper, published in 2001.
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Learning Disability

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1984
Based on approximately 1,600 referrals of learning disabled, educable mentally impaired, emotionally impaired, other disabled and regular students, 94 empirically derived formulas for assessment of learning disability were used. The most discriminating formula, which included WISC, WRAT and grade level variables, resulted in moderate coefficients.
D, Friedrich, G B, Fuller, D, Davis
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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 P, Courtman, D, Mumby
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Specific learning disabilities

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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The Otolaryngologist and Learning Disabilities

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 1970
Learning disabilities, or perceptual defects resulting in the inability to perceive or classify various symbols, may involve many systems including the auditory pathways. Perceptually handicapped children are most often characterized by poor attention to auditory stimuli and limited auditory memory.
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