BACKGROUND There are arguments that a specialist service for adults with intellectual disabilities is needed to address the health inequalities that this group experiences. The boundary of such a specialist service however is unclear, and definition is difficult, given the varying experiences of the multiple stakeholder groups. OBJECTIVES The study reported here quantitatively investigates di...

Learning Disability (LD) is a neurological condition that affects a child's brain and impairs his ability to carry out one or many specific tasks. It is a classification including several disorders in which a child has difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by an unknown factor or factors. LD affects about 15% of children enrolled in schools. An affected child can have normal o...

Experimenters and teachers use discrimination learning procedures to encourage reliable attending to stimulus differences defined as relevant for their purposes. Put another way, the goal of discrimination training is to establish high-probability stimulus control topographies that are coherent with experimenter or teacher specifications. The present research was conducted to investigate a nove...

The purpose of this study was to assess the self-determination of Spanish high school students with Intellectual Disability and other Special Educational Needs (SEN). A total of 371 students between 11 and 17 years of age participated in the study. Of these, 46.4% (n=171) presented SEN, specifically learning disabilities (n=97; 26.2%), borderline and intellectual disability with higher IQ score...

Dynamic Assessment (DA) has been shown to have more predictive value than conventional tests for academic performance. However, in relation to reading difficulties, further research is needed to determine the predictive validity of DA for specific aspects of the different processes involved in reading and the differential validity of DA for different subgroups of students with an academic disad...

out that there is ‘no such thing as a typical call about domestic violence’. She describes the nature of the calls as varied as it depends on the stage at which the woman is at in the relationship. Many women could be said to be ‘in denial’ about the experience of being a victim and take a long time to admit to themselves, and to others, that they have been abused or assaulted and that their pa...

BACKGROUND This study investigates the breast and cervical screening status of women with moderate to severe learning disability and whether uptake could be improved by one to one counselling. METHODS An audit of screening uptake of women in contact with the National Health Service (NHS) learning disability service within the eligible age groups for breast and cervical screening before and af...

This review paper follows on from a previous review of the literature with regard to learning disability and murder (Read, S. 2008). This paper, in turn, examines the relationship, if any, between learning disability and fire setting. The approach taken in both these papers involves the concept of Disruptive Behaviour Disorder as being the group of behaviour and personality disorders most invol...

Background Whether the Flynn effect (the increase in the populations’ IQ over time) affects the IQ scores of people with learning disability or borderline learning disability remains unclear. The issue is important as the Flynn effect should alter the number of people eligible for health service resources. A comparison of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) with the Wechsler ...