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The All Together Group: Co‐Designing a Toolkit of Approaches and Resources for End‐of‐Life Care Planning With People With Intellectual Disabilities in Social Care Settings

Health Expectations
Introduction Support staff within social care settings have expressed a need for resources to facilitate end‐of‐life care planning with people with intellectual disabilities.
Andrea Bruun, Amanda Cresswell, David Jeffrey, Leon Jordan, Richard Keagan‐Bull, Jo Giles, Sarah Swindells, Meg Wilding, Nicola Payne, Sarah L. Gibson, Rebecca Anderson‐Kittow, Irene Tuffrey‐Wijne   +11 more
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Complicating not explicating: Taking up philosophy in learning disability research [PDF]

, 2011
This article provides an introduction to some theoretical ideas and practices from the so-called “philosophers of difference” – Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze and Guattari.
Allan, Julie, Allan, J,
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Advancing Age Modulates Associations Between Cognitive Impairment and Brain Volumes in Early MS

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Cognitive impairment is common in multiple sclerosis (MS), but manifestations following the first demyelinating event are relatively unexplored. We investigated cross‐sectional associations between magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)–derived brain volumes and the presence of cognitive impairment outcomes five years after the first ...
Piriyankan Ananthavarathan, Marco Pitteri, Michael Foster, Sara Collorone, Sara Salama, Elisa Colato, Ferran Prados, Baris Kanber, Marios Yiannakas, Claudia A. M. Gandini Wheeler‐Kingshott, Indran Davagnanam, Frederik Barkhof, Declan Chard, Olga Ciccarelli, Ahmed Toosy   +14 more
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Estimated prevalence of people with learning disabilities: template for general practice

, 2008
BACKGROUND In 2001, a white paper set out a commitment to ensure that people with a learning disability receive equal access to health services, with an expectation that general practices would have identified all people with a learning disability ...
Cottrell, D., Allgar, V., Mir, Ghazala, Marshall, Joyce, Evans, Joyce, Emerson, E., Emerson, Eric, Mir, G., Marshall, J., Heywood, P., Evans, J., Allgar, Victoria, Cottrell, David, Heywood, Phil   +13 more
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Learning disability against itself: The self-injury/self-harm conundrum [PDF]

, 2007
This is the author's PDF version of an article published in British journal of learning disabilities© 2008. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.comThe article begins with a critical look at the existing literature explaining ...
Lovell, Andy, Andrew Lovell
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Comparing the Effect of Semi‐Immersive Virtual Reality, Computerized Cognitive Training, and Traditional Rehabilitation on Cognitive Function in Multiple Sclerosis: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Cognitive impairment is a common non‐motor symptom in Multiple Sclerosis (MS), negatively affecting autonomy and Quality of Life (QoL). Innovative rehabilitation strategies, such as semi‐immersive virtual reality (VR) and computerized cognitive training (CCT), may offer advantages over traditional cognitive rehabilitation (TCR ...
Maria Grazia Maggio, Desiree Latella, Lilla Bonanno, Paulo Cezar Rocha dos Santos, Marcos Maldonado‐Díaz, Meir Plotnik, Rosaria De Luca, Angelo Quartarone, Rocco Salvatore Calabrò   +8 more
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Assessing School Engagement – Adaptation and Validation of “Engagement Versus Disaffection With Learning: Teacher Report” in the Swedish Educational Context

Frontiers in Education, 2020
To follow the trajectories of children’s engagement in learning, validated measures of engagement appropriate for different ages and educational contexts are needed. The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the school engagement questionnaire (
Andrea Ritoša, Andrea Ritoša, Henrik Danielsson, Henrik Danielsson, Madeleine Sjöman, Madeleine Sjöman, Lena Almqvist, Lena Almqvist, Mats Granlund, Mats Granlund   +9 more
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Listening and learning: adults with mild learning disabilities' lived experience of individual counselling [PDF]

, 2012
Learning disability services aspire to the social model of disability which acknowledges the expertise of service-users on all aspects of their lives. Counselling is now more widely accepted as a treatment approach for the emotional problems of people ...
Fitzgerald, Catherine M.
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Early Clinical, Imaging, and Pathological Characteristics of SRPK3/TTN‐Digenic Myopathy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective SRPK3/TTN‐digenic myopathy was recently established as a skeletal muscle myopathy caused by digenic inheritance. This study characterizes the early clinical presentation of SRPK3/TTN‐digenic myopathy in one previously reported and seven newly identified pediatric patients.
Rotem Orbach, Sandra Donkervoort, Carola Hedberg‐Oldfors, Giovanni Baranello, Dimah Saade, Precilla D'Souza, Ruchee Patel, Eva Michael, A. Reghan Foley, Diana Bharucha‐Goebel, S. Jin Haugland, Meghan McAnally, Omer Abdul Hamid, Katherine Chao, Ellen F. Macnamara, Alan H. Beggs, Anna Sarkozy, Juliane Mueller, Steven A. Moore, Richard S. Finkel, Cynthia J. Tifft, Francesco Muntoni, Anders Oldfors, Carsten G. Bönnemann   +23 more
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Rights and responsibilities: The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) and adults with learning disabilities

, 2008
The purpose of this research is to examine Part III (access to goods, facilities and services) of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 in relation to people with learning disabilities.
Lerpiniere, Jennifer, Stalker, Kirsten
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