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This walking tour has been created to assist students on a range of health and social care courses. The tour will help you with the theoretical and practical components of your course. The areas chosen in this tour should act as a map to guide your growing understanding of the many complex issues that face people with intellectual disabilities and those who work with them. You may also be interested in some of the articles to be found in the sections on changing values & services, families, complex disability, mental and physical health and how to ...
Intellectual disability is:
- A significantly reduced ability to understand new or complex information, to learn new skills (impaired intelligence), with
- A reduced ability to cope independently (impaired social functioning);
- which started before adulthood, with a lasting effect on development.
Intellectual disability does not include all those who have an intellectual or learning difficulty, which is more broadly defined in education legislation.
The above definition is taken from the UK Government White Paper published in 2,000 in 'Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century'.
Please note that throughout the website we use intellectual disability or intellectual disabilities, terms that are increasingly recognized throughout the world. The terms commonly used in the UK are learning disabilities or learning difficulty and, in North America, developmental disability, mental retardation and mental handicap.
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Consent and People With Intellectual Disabilities: The Basics
- Guide covering the law in England in 2006. Different rules apply in other countries. This website is hoping to feature articles on consent in other jurisdictions. The legal situation in England will change when the Capacity Act comes into force in 2007.
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User Involvement
- 'It is no longer acceptable for organisations to view people with intellectual disabilities as passive recipients of services; they must be seen as active partners.'
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"I Have Down's Syndrome - But Don't Feel Sorry For Me"
- How Unusual is Anya? 'The fact that Anya's achieved such normality in her life against all the odds is an enormous tribute to her and her family.'
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Intellectual Disability Policy In England
- Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century. An extract from the White Paper published in 2000.
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Clinical Communication
- The General Medical Council consider effective and sensitive communication to be one of the "essentials of basic clinical method". "Doctors must be good listeners if they are to understand the problems of their patients and they must be able to provide advice and explanations that are comprehensible to patients and their relatives".
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Overview of Learning Disability in Children
- People with intellectual disabilities and their parents are at risk of being undervalued and stigmatized.
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Health Guidelines for Adults with an Intellectual Disability
- Nutritional well-being is recognised as an important factor in maximising growth potential, maintaining health, and improving quality of life and longevity.
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Syndromes
- The following articles on syndromes may also be of some interest to readers taking this walking tour:
