- Introduction and guidance
- Introduction
- 1 Being labelled
- 2 What is a learning disability?
- 3 Medical or social?
- 4 Listening to people who do not use words to communicate
- 5 How many people have a learning disability?
- 6 Where do people with learning disabilities live?
- 7 To label or not to label
- 8 Human rights
- 9 This session's quiz
- 10 Summary of Session 1
- Want to know more?
- Introduction
- 1 From the 1700s to the mid-twentieth century
- 2 The institutions
- 3 Life in the community
- 4 The late twentieth and early twenty-first century - things getting better
- 5 The present
- 6 This session's quiz
- 7 Summary of Session 2
- Want to know more?
- Introduction
- 1 Family experiences
- 2 Disabled by association
- 3 Change and no change for families
- 4 Family advocacy and family carers
- 5 Choice and conflict
- 6 This session's quiz
- 7 Summary of Session 3
- Want to know more?
- Introduction
- 1 From ‘ineducable’ to ‘included’
- 2 The role of special education
- 3 Inclusive education in practice
- 4 Challenges and benefits of delivering inclusive education
- 5 This session’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Session 4
- Want to know more?
- Introduction
- 1 The importance of work
- 2 Finding a job
- 3 Having a job
- 4 Supporting people into work
- 5 Working with other people with learning disabilities
- 6 The impact of getting a job
- 7 This session's quiz
- 8 Summary of Session 5
- Want to know more?
- Introduction
- 1 What are some of the health risks?
- 2 As independent as possible?
- 3 Healthcare
- 4 Reasonable adjustments
- 5 Unnecessary deaths
- 6 When things go well
- 7 Isolation, loneliness and ill health
- 8 This session's quiz
- 9 Summary of Session 6
- Want to know more?
- Introduction
- 1 Caring relationships
- 2 Making friends
- 3 Romantic relationships
- 4 Managing the risks – avoiding harmful relationships
- 5 This session’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Session 7
- Want to know more?
- Introduction
- 1 Upholding people’s rights
- 2 Self-advocacy and getting to know your rights
- 3 Family advocacy
- 4 Changing the system
- 5 Working with people with learning disabilities
- 6 This session’s quiz
- 7 Summary of Session 8
- Want to know more?
- Where next?
- Tell us what you think
- References
- Acknowledgements
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