General Practitioners

We hope that this tour will be useful to GPs and others working in primary care. If you are new to intellectual disability, you might also care to look at the Tour for Medical Students. GPs will be seeing more people with intellectual disability. Instead of being hidden away in long-stay hospitals they live in ordinary housing. Both they and their families are entitled to the same quality of primary care that the rest of the population enjoys. At the moment in England and Wales regular health checks for adults with intellectual disability are not included in measures of service quality. However, such measurement may well be introduced in the future. You may therefore be interested in the St George's Health Check Questionnaire, which is slightly different to existing screening questionnaires.

Assessment in Primary Care

This article describes the expected health needs of people with intellectual disabilities in the community and how best to identify and address these needs.

Offering Health Checks to People with Intellectual Disabilities

Offering Health Checks to People with Intellectual Disabilities as Part of Medical Students' Primary Care Course

Top Ten Tips For Effective Consultation

It is important to know who has intellectual disabilities in Primary Care. There are ways of identifying someone without embarrassing them. These tips may be helpful from the moment the person with intellectual disabilities contacts the GP. People with intellectual disabilities need to have sufficient time to allow them to speak for themselves.

Overview of Learning Disability in Children

People with intellectual disabilities and their parents are at risk of being undervalued and stigmatized.

Autism

Although commonly associated with general intellectual disabilities - approximately 75% of people with autism have a non-verbal Intelligence Quotient (IQ) below 70 - autism can also occur in individuals of normal, or even superior intelligence.

Research Evidence on the Health of People with Learning [Intellectual] Disabilities

'Key Highlights' of Research Evidence on the Health of People with Learning [Intellectual] Disabilities

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