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Direct linkPaul Watts; Janet Hoskin; Radhika Upadhyay; Emma Tapley; Gosia Kwiatkowska – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
Introduction: This paper examines the experiences of people with learning disabilities in the United Kingdom as society transitions towards cashless transactions and services. It is a significant study because it highlights the need to understand their digital financial experiences. Methods: This study employed an inclusive, interpretivist…
Descriptors: Adults, Learning Disabilities, Attitudes, Disabilities
Mary Bottomley; Jodie Bradley; Lisa Clark; Bryan Collis; Bojana Daw Srdanovic; Victoria Farnsworth; Annie Ferguson; Dan Goodley; Andrew Fox; Nikita K. Hayden; Charlotte Lawthom; Rebecca Lawthom; Claudia Magwood; Robert McLean; Ian Middleton; Alison Owen; Matty Prothero; Simon Rice; Simon Richards; Katherine Runswick-Cole; Kelly Scargill; Rohit Shankar; Toni Ann Wood – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: We are a research team of clinical, academic and advocacy-based researchers with and without learning disabilities, working on the "Humanising Healthcare" (for people with learning disabilities) project. The project is dedicated to finding and sharing healthcare practices that enhance the lives of people with learning…
Descriptors: Ethics, Learning Disabilities, Guidelines, Researchers
Matthew Reason; Kelsie Acton; Daniel Foulds – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: "I'm Me" is a creative research project co-created between York St John University and Mind the Gap, investigating learning disabled and autistic artists' understandings of identity, representation and voice. Methods: In this paper, we use Walmsley and Johnson's criteria for inclusive research to reflect on the involvement of…
Descriptors: Artists, Partnerships in Education, Learning Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Nicola Grove; Simon Richards; Simon Rice; Claudia Magwood; Bryan Collis; Steffen Martick; Saskia Schuppener; Gertraud Kremsner; Elizabeth Tilley; Jan Walmsley – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Inclusive research has sidelined discussion of theoretical issues with researchers with intellectual/learning disabilities. This is a situation which the Big Ideas initiative sought to change. Between 2021 and 2023, the Open University, Leipzig University and the University of Koblenz organised nine workshops to explore influential…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Workshops, Inclusion, Learning Disabilities
Waight, Mary; Oldreive, Warren – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
This study aims to outline a time-related study to identify UK websites providing information for people with learning disabilities and to evaluate the websites to determine strengths and weaknesses. Following a brief review of literature, a series of criteria were drawn up to evaluate websites for people with learning disabilities. Eighty-three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Sites, Learning Disabilities, Access to Information
Rojas, Susana; Sanahuja, Josep Ma – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2012
Our work, based on two pieces of research, aims to show how we try to get the voice of persons with learning disabilities. In both pieces of work, the second of which is still under progress, we have used video as the means by which we can collect and show what people are saying in the context and situation in which they find themselves. As we…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Learning Disabilities, Research, Listening
Chapman, Melanie; Bannister, Susan; Davies, Julie; Fleming, Simon; Graham, Claire; Mcmaster, Andrea; Seddon, Angela; Wheldon, Anita; Whittell, Bridget – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2012
This article describes a partnership research project carried out by a research team consisting of people with learning disabilities and people without learning disabilities. The research explored people's understandings of advocacy and identified gaps in advocacy provision for people with learning disabilities and their families. Four focus…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Mental Retardation, Learning Disabilities, Focus Groups
Bentley, Sarah; Nicholls, Rickie; Price, Maxine; Wilkinson, Aaron; Purcell, Matthew; Woodhall, Martin; Walmsley, Jan – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
We are five young people with learning disabilities who found out about the history of hospitals for people with learning disabilities in our area, and made a film about the project. The project taught us what life had been like for some people with learning disabilities only 30 years ago. It was very different to our lives; we have more choice,…
Descriptors: Oral History, Hospitals, Learning Disabilities, Young Adults
Skinner, Rachael; Joiner, Chris; Chesters, Liz; Bates, Louise; Scrivener, Louise – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
There appears to be some degree of hesitation and lack of confidence among professionals in conducting capacity assessments. This document explains a two-phase process developed and implemented by a multi-disciplinary group of professionals during a pilot project. The first phase in the decision making process is to determine to what extent the…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Learning Disabilities, Surgery, Human Body
Brown, Freddy Jackson; Cooper, Kate; Diebel, Tara – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
People with learning disabilities have higher levels of health needs compared with the general population (Nocon, 2006, Background evidence for the DRC's formal investigation into health inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities or mental health problems. London and Manchester, Disability Rights Commission). Research has shown…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Disabilities, Barriers, Health Services
Tuffrey-Wijne, Irene; Davies, John – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
As people with learning disabilities live longer, and the incidence of cancer is rising, it is of increasing importance to understand the lived cancer experience of this group. Consideration of the viewpoints of people with learning disabilities themselves will facilitate the development of cancer support services that are appropriate and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Cancer, Learning Disabilities, Disabilities
Peer reviewedWhitaker, Simon; Hirst, Daniel – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2002
It is argued that challenging behavior can be better understood if a correlational analysis (looking for correlations between behavior occurrence and other variables) is used in addition to functional analysis. A case example is provided of a man whose aggressive outbursts were negatively correlated with trips out of his unit. (Contains…
Descriptors: Adults, Aggression, Autism, Behavior Modification
