BACKGROUND Recently, the frequency of audit inspections of health services for people with intellectual disability (ID) in the UK has increased, from occasional inquiries to a systematic audit of all services. From 2008, a process of continuous audit 'surveillance' of specialist health services is to be introduced. Similar regimes of inspection are in place for social care services. AIM To ex...

1 NOTE: this is the authors’ version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Intellectual Disabilities. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A final version was published as: Rae, H., McKenzie, K. & Murray, G.C. (2011) The impact of training on teacher knowledge about children with an intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual D...

Few high-quality trials have been conducted in intellectual disability mental health. Trials such as Willner et al's have a 'close-to-market' focus. I argue that rapid generation of evidence for individuals with intellectual disability is the priority, alongside a new research focus on mental health in those with severe intellectual disability.

This paper uses a theoretical model of cooperative learning to examine the survivability of communities of learners. A primary assumption in this article is that individualbased learning tends to use local information to increase an individual’s “fitness” while collaborative learning, based on the sharing of information, knowledge, and resources, increases group fitness. We frame our discussion...

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