Learning disability : a life cycle approach to valuing people / edited by Gordon Grant ... [et al.].

Contributor(s):

Grant, Gordon, 1946-

Material type:

TextPublication details: Maidenhead ; New York : Open University Press, 2005.Description: xix, 757 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780335214396 (pb)
0335214398 (pb)
9780335218264 (hb)
0335218261 (hb)

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DDC classification:

371.9 GRA 22

LOC classification:

HV3008.G7 L43 2005

NLM classification:

2006 B-820
WL 340.2

Online resources:

Table of contents only

Contents:

Acknowledgements About the Editors List of Contributors PrefacePart One: The Construction of Learning Disability Narratives and people with learning disabilities Chapter From vagabonds to Victorian values: the social construction of a disability identity The roots of biomedical diagnosis Critiques of segregation and eugenics Learning disability and the law Models of service deliveryEric Emerson Maintaining a commitment to quality Advocacy, campaigning and people with learning difficulties Part Two: Childhood: Rights, Risks & Responsibilities Children with learning disabilities talking about their everyday lives Breaking 'bad' news Experiences of family care: bridging discontinuities over the life course Promoting healthy lifestyles: physical and sensory needs Communication and people with learning disabilities Part Three: Independence: Adolescents and the Younger Adult Adolescents and younger adults: narrative accounts Independence, reciprocity and resilience Managing independent living: safeguarding adults with learning disabilities against abuse Promoting healthy lifestyles - challenging behaviour (Almost) everything you wanted to know about sexuality and learning disability but were always too afraid to ask Supporting people with learning disabilities when they come into contact with the criminal justice system Promoting independence through work Counselling people with a learning disability Part Four: Social Inclusion and Adulthood You have to prove yourself all the time: people with learning disabilities parenting Promoting friendships and developing social networks Enabling and supporting person-centred approaches Culture and ethnicity: developing accessible and appropriate services for health and social care Work, learning & leisure? Only if you are lucky! The journey towards fulfilling lives for people with learning disabilities Promoting healthy lifestyles: mental health and illness Making a life in the community: is intensive personalised support enough? Engaging communities of interest Part Five: Citizenship and the Older Adult A late picking: narratives of older people with learning disabilities Growing old: adapting to change and realising a sense of belonging, continuity and purpose Promoting healthy lifestyles: end of life issues Research and emancipation: prospects and problems Index

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements
About the Editors
List of Contributors
PrefacePart One: The Construction of Learning Disability
Narratives and people with learning disabilities Chapter
From vagabonds to Victorian values: the social construction of a disability identity
The roots of biomedical diagnosis
Critiques of segregation and eugenics
Learning disability and the law
Models of service deliveryEric Emerson
Maintaining a commitment to quality
Advocacy, campaigning and people with learning difficulties

Part Two: Childhood: Rights, Risks & Responsibilities
Children with learning disabilities talking about their everyday lives
Breaking 'bad' news
Experiences of family care: bridging discontinuities over the life course
Promoting healthy lifestyles: physical and sensory needs
Communication and people with learning disabilities

Part Three: Independence: Adolescents and the Younger Adult
Adolescents and younger adults: narrative accounts
Independence, reciprocity and resilience
Managing independent living: safeguarding adults with learning disabilities against abuse
Promoting healthy lifestyles - challenging behaviour
(Almost) everything you wanted to know about sexuality and learning disability but were always too afraid to ask
Supporting people with learning disabilities when they come into contact with the criminal justice system
Promoting independence through work
Counselling people with a learning disability

Part Four: Social Inclusion and Adulthood
You have to prove yourself all the time: people with learning disabilities parenting
Promoting friendships and developing social networks
Enabling and supporting person-centred approaches
Culture and ethnicity: developing accessible and appropriate services for health and social care
Work, learning & leisure? Only if you are lucky! The journey towards fulfilling lives for people with learning disabilities
Promoting healthy lifestyles: mental health and illness
Making a life in the community: is intensive personalised support enough?
Engaging communities of interest

Part Five: Citizenship and the Older Adult
A late picking: narratives of older people with learning disabilities
Growing old: adapting to change and realising a sense of belonging, continuity and purpose
Promoting healthy lifestyles: end of life issues Research and emancipation: prospects and problems

Index

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