Profound and multiple learning disability Blog Posts

• 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

  
• Involve Me: Increasing the involvement of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) in decision-making and consultation

  07 Oct 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Lack of effective services for young people with challenging behaviour at transition tends to increase protectiveness of parents

  20 Sep 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Meta analysis of treatments for self injurious behaviour finds statistically significant effects

  06 May 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Thematic organisation of activities did not improve quality for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.

  21 Apr 2011

  • John Northfield