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Nico Leonhardt; Kristín Björnsdóttir; Anne Goldbach; Ragnar Smára; Steffen Martick; Beate Schlothauer – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
Background: Universities are deeply rooted in a tradition of exclusivity. However, for the past several years, they have been called upon to develop in an inclusive and socially responsible manner that does justice to the plurality of society. This has led to the emergence of diverse practices and projects around the world that are intended to…
Descriptors: Universities, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Inclusion
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Paul 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
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Deborah Quilgars; Eppie Leishman; David Abbott; Samantha Clarke; Becca Cooper; Stephen Hodgkins; Paul Scarrott; Andy Pollin; Lois Beech – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Policy, research, and people's own experience in the UK consistently highlight the central importance of a home of choice for people with learning disabilities. Yet attention is mainly focused on the development of specialist as opposed to generic housing options for people with learning disabilities. Methods: This article reviews the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Housing, Attitudes
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Michelle Iffland; Mikaela Jorgensen; Donna Gillies – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: People with intellectual disabilities are at much higher risk of preventable deaths compared to the general community. However, studies identifying the cause of death in people with intellectual disability are generally based on one primary cause which is frequently attributed to the person's disability. Therefore, the aim of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Learning Disabilities, Death
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Athena Ip; Sally Kendall; Ali Jabeen; Scott Watkin; Anna Cox – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: With the right support, people with learning disabilities can be 'good enough' parents (Coren et al., 2011; Murphy & Feldman, 2002). Parenting programmes exist to support parents and are made accessible for people with learning disabilities who are expecting a baby, but evaluation of the benefit of these interventions is poor due…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Self Efficacy, Child Rearing
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David Dobel-Ober; Paul Moloney; Sarah Millichap – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Coproduction is a fast-developing approach to patient involvement. It entails health and social care services users working as equals in partnership with providers and other public institutions to produce novel research and information, usually aimed at the improvement of service planning and delivery. Methods: This paper presents two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Learning Disabilities, Health Services
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Stainton, Tim – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
Background: The immediate post-world war II era was a critical turning point in the history of learning disability in the United Kingdom and much of the global north. Most notably the gradual move away from institutional provision to a community-oriented approach. While many diverse threads contributed to this change, a key influence was the slow,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History, Learning Disabilities, Crime
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Laura Hall – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Service user involvement is imperative in the delivery of mental health services. However, a paucity of research has explored how individuals with a learning disability find waiting for therapy. Therefore, this project aimed to explore how service users accessing a community learning disability team experienced waiting for…
Descriptors: Individual Psychology, Therapy, Mental Health Programs, Learning Disabilities
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Kate Sykes; Grant J. McGeechan; Emma L. Giles – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Women with learning disabilities are less likely to access cervical and breast cancer screening when compared to the general population. The Social Ecological Model (SEM) was used to examine the inequalities faced by women with learning disabilities in accessing cervical and breast cancer screening in England, UK. Methods: The findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Learning Disabilities, Cancer
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Sarah Earle; Susan Ledger; Victoria Newton; Lorna Rouse; Elizabeth Tilley – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Across the life course, women and girls with learning disabilities and their carers report difficulties in accessing information and support with menstruation, yet their experiences are often overlooked in initiatives to improve menstrual health and wellbeing. Our aim was to collaborate with women with learning disabilities to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Learning Disabilities, Physiology
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Castro, María Gómez-Carrillo; Palazuelos, Adela; Corona, Adrián; Sánchez, Ángela; Alises, Gema; Sancho, Marta; Cauja, Paola; Sanz, Víctor – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
Background: This paper describes the experience of conducting a co-researched project with people with learning disabilities in Madrid, Spain, during the COVID pandemic and lockdown. I discuss the advantages and limitations of working online and challenges encountered while coordinating and facilitating the research. Methods: Our research project…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Learning Disabilities, Videoconferencing, Foreign Countries
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Christian, Paul; Ledger, Sue – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
My name is Paul Christian. I am a Black British man with learning disabilities. The lives and experiences of Black people with learning disabilities are underrepresented in the UK history of learning disability. This article explains my involvement in activism to change this and shares the learning from these projects. It discusses the process of…
Descriptors: Experience, Blacks, Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities
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Chris Hatton; Richard P. Hastings; Sue Caton; Jill Bradshaw; Andrew Jahoda; Rosemary Kelly; Roseann Maguire; Edward Oloidi; Laurence Taggart; Stuart Todd; The Coronavirus and People with Learning Disabilities Study Team – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, many health services were withdrawn from people with learning disabilities, with negative impacts on people's health. What has happened to people's health and healthcare as we move beyond the pandemic? Methods: Access to health services and health status were tracked for 550 UK adults…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries
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Towell, David – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
Background: In 2006, the United Nations agreed the "Convention On the Rights Of Persons With Disabilities." Article 19, 'Living independently and being included in the community' sets out the 'equal rights of all persons with disabilities to live in the community, with choices equal to others…' A generation earlier, a small group of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Learning Disabilities, Activism
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Reeve, Jacquelyn; Farmer, Emily; Bayley, William – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
This paper reviews the challenges faced by a team at the Grace Eyre Foundation in running a coproduced oral history project during the pandemic. It examines the benefits and challenges of working online, comparing this to face-to-face approaches. For over 100 years, the Grace Eyre Foundation has provided support to people with learning…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Educational History, COVID-19, Pandemics
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