Advocacy Blog Posts

• Safe and social – helping learning disabled people improve skills and understanding

  22 Apr 2015

  • Mandy Johnson

  
• Using actors with learning disabilities during training to improve doctors’ communication and diagnostic skills

  15 Apr 2015

  • Tom Crossland

  
• Self-concept amongst adults with mild learning disabilities is good, but can be strengthened with practitioner support

  23 Mar 2015

  • Alex Leeder

  
• Advocacy support for parents with learning disabilities – is it cost effective?

  20 Feb 2015

  • Katherine Runswick-Cole

  
• “There’s no need to laugh. Isn’t this a normal subject?” People with learning disabilities talking about sex and relationships

  16 Feb 2015

  • Michelle Gregory

  
• Sex education programmes focused on ‘protection’ and ‘prevention’ with little attention given to supporting people to develop healthy, positive sexual relationships

  28 Nov 2014

  • Sian Anderson

  
• Equipping family carers with better information about in-patient assessment and treatment for people with learning disabilities

  07 Nov 2014

  • Alison Giraud-Saunders

  
• Direct training with accessible materials improves knowledge of medication and capacity to consent in small group of adults with learning disabilities

  27 Oct 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Mental health anti-stigma programs are (broadly) successful

  21 Oct 2014

  • David Steele

  
• National event for people with learning disabilities provides clear proposals for inclusion and development

  13 Oct 2014

  • John Northfield