Intellectual Disabilities
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Good intentions, good enough?
Daniel Brennan, Assistant Psychologist at Ealing Intensive Therapeutic and Short Break Service (ITSBS) provides a summary of Lenehan, C. and Geraghty, M. (2017) “Good intentions, good enough?: a review of the experiences and outcomes of children and young people with learning disabilities in residential special schools and colleges”,
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Just what does a learning disability nurse do?
”As a clinical nurse specialist, and manager, there is no typical day.”- Julie Blackaby. “It is probably the liveliest and most exciting it has been since the advent of the NHS”- Noeleen Morritt.
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Intellectual Disability, Challenging Behaviour and the Role of Communication
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- London
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Autism Awareness Day 2019
Celebrating Autism Awareness Day 2019 we want to make you aware of the free resources we have.
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Professor Bradley Peterson – Neuroscience – ‘Future challenges for the science of child psychology and psychiatry’
Recorded lecture from Professor Bradley Peterson, at the Wellcome Collection, celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
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Sleep problems in preschoolers predict depression and anxiety severity
The bidirectional links between sleep problems and psychopathology in children have been well-reviewed,1 but few investigations have been performed in young samples and those with early-onset psychopathology.
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Cortical hyperarousal in children may predict insomnia in adolescence
Read about the first developmental study to examine whether increased beta EEG activity in childhood precedes the onset of pathological insomnia symptoms in adolescence.
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In Conversation… Intellectual Disabilities
Dr Mark Lovell, and Mary Busk, talk to journalist Jo Carlowe about Intellectual Disabilities from a professional and personal viewpoint.
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Parent-delivered teaching supports children’s early language development
This article is a summary of the paper ‘An evaluation of a parent-delivered early language enrichment programme: evidence from a randomised controlled trial’ by Burgoyne et al. (2018), published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
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Research issues for children, young people and adults with learning disability and/or autism and their families – some personal reflections
One of the most positive experiences I have ever had was being part of the Childhood Disability Research Priority Setting Partnership through the British Academy of Childhood Disability, the James Lind Alliance and others.
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