If you are looking for an incisive overview of current thinking and practice in the field of learning disabilities, then this is the book for you.
Written by a highly experienced team of authors, this handy pocket-sized guide succinctly captures the fundamental ideas in policy and practice that currently dominate the field of learning disabilities.
With a strong grounding in ethics and values, the book focuses on the experience of people with learning disabilities through examination of topics such as discrimination, communication and assistive technology, as well as promoting readers' understanding of key areas such as care planning, accommodation and application of the Human Rights Act 1998.
With explicit 'Implications for Practice' points and extensive signposting to further reading, A-Z of Learning Disabilities is an essential resource not only for students and practitioners in learning disability nursing or social work, but also teachers, policymakers, families and anyone who lives with, or whose work brings them into contact with, people who have learning disabilities.
1. Accommodating and Housing
2. Advocacy
3. Adult Placement
4. Ageing
5. Angelman's Syndrome
6. Assessment
7. Assistive Technology
8. Autistic Spectrum
9. Behavioural Approaches
10. Care Planning
11. Cerebral Palsy
13. Charities and Voluntary Agencies
14. Childhood
15. Citizenship
16. Communication and Accessible Information
17. Consent and Capacity
18. Cornelia De Lange Syndrome
19. Ciri De Chat Syndrome
20. Criminal Justice and Forensic Services
21. Day Services
22. Dementias
23. Discrimination
24. Down Syndrome
25. Education
26. Employment
27. Empowerment
28. Epilepsy
29. Ethnicity
30. Fragile X
31. Grief and Loss
32. Hate Crime
33. Health Care Services and Health Inequalities
34. Human Rights and Disability Rights Movement
35. Inclusion
36. International Perspectives
37. Interprofessional Practice
38. Legislation
39. Maternity and Parenting
40. Media Representation
41. Mental Health
42. Models of Disability
43. Philosophical Approaches
44. Parents and Siblings
45. Partnership Working
46. Patau Syndrome
47. Person-Centred Approaches
48. Personalization and Care Planning
49. Phenylketonuria
50. PMLD
51. Prader Willi Syndrome
52. Professional practice
53. Research
54. Restrictive Practice
55. Rett Syndrome
56. Risk
57. Safeguarding
58. Sensory Disabilities
59. Serious Case Reviews
60. Sexuality
61. Short Breaks and Respite Care
62. Social Care Services
63. Spirituality
64. Terminology and History
65. Transition Planning
66. Valuing People
67. Williams Syndrome.
