Walking Tour: STUDENTS ON HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE COURSES

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 ...

Introduction to Intellectual Disability for Students on Health and Social Care Courses:

1. What is Intellectual Disability?
2. Informed Consent

3. User Involvement

4. I Have Down's Syndrome - But Don't Feel Sorry for Me

5. Policy Development in England

6. Clinical communication

7. Overview of Learning Disability in Children

8. Health Guidelines for an Adult with Intellectual Disability

9. Syndromes section