Profound and multiple learning disability Blog Posts

• Measuring physiological changes can help validate emotional states of people with profound learning disabilities

  11 Oct 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• New guides to improving support for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities published

  01 Jul 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Ombudsman finds service failures once again in report on death of young woman with learning disabilities

  24 May 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Issues unique to people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities impact on autonomic nervous system signals in communication

  20 May 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Combination of behavioural and physiological measurements may help to better understand communication of people with profound learning disabilities

  12 Nov 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Heart rate and skin temperature offer insights into emotions of people with profound learning disabilities

  07 Sep 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Staff did not always follow guidelines when reading multi sensory stories for people with profound and multiple disabilities

  11 Jul 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Receptive communication issues key in small study of adults with profound learning disabilities

  22 May 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Clear policy and procedure required to guide social interaction between support staff and people with congenital deafblindness

  28 Mar 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Multisensory storytelling did not result in high quality staff interactivity

  23 Feb 2012

  • John Northfield