Tizard Learning Disability Review: Volume 19 Issue 3
Practice, management, research and innovation
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Experiential learning: changing student attitudes towards learning disability
Carly Smith, Rachel Forrester-JonesThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the reflective journals kept by 62 students researching and interviewing people with learning disabilities. The aim was to explore the…
Commentary on experiential learning: changing student attitudes towards learning disability: how can we reduce exclusion further?
Celia Harding– The purpose of this paper is to provide some thoughts following on from reading: “Experiential learning: changing student attitudes towards learning disability”.
A survey of experiences of abuse
Olivia HewittPeople with a learning disability remain at increased risk of abuse and neglect due to a number of factors associated with learning disability per se and the culture in which they…
Brick by brick: building up our knowledge base on the abuse of adults with learning disabilities
Michelle McCarthy– The purpose of this paper is to draw readers’ attention to the myriad ways to find out about abuse towards people with learning disabilities.
Occupational identity of staff and attitudes towards institutional closure
Hannu T. Vesala, Antti Teittinen, Pilvikki HeinonenDeinstitutionalization has impacts also on direct care workers and their work. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the attitudes of direct care workers towards the closure of…
Commentary on “Occupational identity of staff and attitudes towards institutional closure”
Agnes Turnpenny– The purpose of this paper is to reflect on Vesala et al.'s (2014) findings on the occupational identity of staff and attitudes towards institutional closure.
How psychiatric in-patient care for people with learning disabilities is transforming after Winterbourne View
Gyles Glover, Ian Brown, Chris HattonTwo censuses, from 2010 and 2013, respectively, shed light on the trend in use of in-patient psychiatric care for people with learning disability or autism following the BBC…
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