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Goodwin, Julian; Mason, Victoria; Williams, Val; Townsley, Ruth – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
This paper discusses the provision of easy information about research to people with learning disabilities, their families and supporters. We explore some different ways we have used over the past 25 years, to make sure that research has the greatest impact both in the UK and abroad. We discuss first the process of providing easy-read versions of…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Information Dissemination, Access to Information, Foreign Countries
Abbott, David; Marriott, Anna – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
In the UK, policy on adult social care places an emphasis on maximising choice and control for service users, including people with learning disabilities. The shift from the provision of organised services for groups of people to offering individual and personal budgets and pots of money for people to buy their own services has major implications…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Money Management, Decision Making
Michell, Bryan – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2012
This is about research an Oxfordshire Self-Advocacy Organisation did into annual health checks for people with learning disabilities. The self-advocates worked with Oxfordshire's Primary Care Health Facilitator and a Professor to find out why only one in four people in our area had a health check in 2009/10 (Emerson & Glover 2010a,b). The…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Learning Disabilities, Self Advocacy, Foreign Countries
Manning, Corinne – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
The following article outlines the methodological approach used to include people with learning disabilities as active participants in an oral history produced in Australia. The history sought to document life inside Kew Cottages, Australia's oldest and largest specialised institution for people with learning disabilities. This work furthers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developmental Disabilities, Oral History, Ethics
Abell, Simon; Ashmore, Jackie; Wilson, Dorothy; Beart, Suzie; Brownley, Peter; Butcher, Adam; Clarke, Zara; Combes, Helen; Francis, Errol; Hayes, Stefan; Hemmingham, Ian; Hicks, Kerry; Ibraham, Amina; Kenyon, Elinor; Lee, Darren; McClimens, Alex; Collins, Michelle; Newton, John; Wilson, Dorothy – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
In our paper we talk about what it is like to be a group of people with and without learning disabilities researching together. We describe the process of starting and maintaining the research group and reflect on the obstacles that we have come across, and the rewards such research has brought us. Lastly we put forward some ideas about the role…
Descriptors: Rewards, Learning Disabilities, Research, Group Dynamics
Mir, Ghazala – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
Research at the University of Leeds has evaluated how well changes to healthcare proposed in the Government White Paper "Valuing People" (Department of Health 2001) were being implemented in one locality and their impact on people with learning disabilities. The project had a developmental aspect and incorporated two workshops over the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Local Issues, Workshops, Resource Allocation