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A colourful book for older children and teenagers. It gives a detailed explanation of what cerebral palsy is and the history of how the condition has been viewed and treated. Great for someone who wants a more in-depth look at cerebral palsy.
This text brings together contributions by British experts to examine the shifting relationship between welfare policy and the voluntary sector. Taking into account the fundamental reassessment of the role of the state in welfare and the funding and organization of the delivery of health care, social services, housing and so on, it asks what the implications are for voluntary sector organzations and in what specific ways they are responding to their new expanded role.
This work offers step-by-step instructions for helping children with disabilities get the rest they need. For problems ranging from bedtime tantrums to night waking, parents and caregivers will find a variety of tested techniques that have already helped other children with special needs.
This book brings together significant emerging work on ethnicity, disability, chronic illness and caring by leading researchers in the field. They explore the experience of minority ethnic people, and examine: the conceptualization of disability and chronic illness and the implications of particular definitions; the everyday living with a disability or chronic ill health; and, the role of services in providing support to disabled people and carers. In theoretical terms the book problematizes distinctions between users and carers, between the social model of disability and more individual medical discourses, and argues that chronic illness and impairment can be made sense of only within personal, social and citizenship contexts; and ethnicity and racism remain important aspects of this wider context for minority ethnic people with impairment or chronic ill health.
Intensive Interaction is probably the most positive and accessible way of getting in touch with and empowering people who may seem locked in their ’inner world’. This DVD training resource seeks to bridge the gap in the range of currently available material on the use of Intensive Interaction.
This DVD shows how Intensive Interaction is used to find ways of communicating with people who have multiple and profound learning disabilites, enabling them to expess their feelings as well as their needs. It shows care staff and family carers learning to use a number of simple Intensive Interaction techniques with four adults, under the guidance of Phoebe Caldwell. Explanatory discussion between Phoebe Caldwell and Pene Stevens, a clinical nurse specialist in the field, and from the carers themselves supplement these powerful films.
This resource is for anyone involved in supporting a person with severe and profound learning disabilities, helping them to establish ’two-way’ creative conversations that have meaning for the individual. The video comes with guidance notes covering the main features of Intensive Interaction.
Building on Phoebe Caldwell’s previous bestselling books, this DVD resource demonstrates the techniques carers can use to build positive relationships with people with severe learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. Phoebe uses a combined approach of using a person’s own ‘language’ to communicate with them (Intensive Interaction) while also trying to reduce the stress they experience by an exploration of their sensory reality and hyper-sensitivities.
The DVD shows:
• Phoebe establishing contact for the first time with a man with severe autistic spectrum disorder
• support workers demonstrating how they put the techniques into action in their daily routines
• how new ways of communicating can make a difference to the lives of all concerned.
This is a textbook for students of learning disabilities covering a wide variety of topics. It is relevant not only for nursing courses, but also for care workers, OTs, and other professional and non-professional carers. The new edition has been completely updated and includes the latest evidence for practice. There are new chapters which means the book provides comprehensive coverage of learning disablities throughout a person’s life. There are also new contributors, including people with learning disabilities. Each chapter is supported by information on further reading and other resources.
This book explores the victimisation of people with disabilities and helps reduce the risk of sexual assault. The ring of safety presents the skills to teach people with disabilities to enable them to protect themselves.