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Aims of the sessions

Year I

• Birm:Clin:LD: Introduction
• Birm:Clin:LD: Advocacy
• Birm:Clin:LD: Service users
• Birm:Clin:LD: Challenging behavior
• Birm:Clin:LD: Assessment
• Birm:Clin:LD: Talking therapy 1
• Birm:Clin:LD: Working with staff
• Birm:Clin:LD: Working with older people

Year 2

• Birm:Clin:LD: Service users
• Birm:Clin:LD: Multiple and profound disabilities
• Birm:Clin:LD: Talking therapies 2
• Birm:Clin:LD: Transition
• Birm:Clin:LD: Mental health and mental impairment
• Birm:Clin:LD: Sexuality
• Birm:Clin:LD: Systemic

Core Reading - Learning Disabilities Module

A Craft, A (1994)) Practice issues in sexuality and learning disabilities. London. Routledge.

Carnaby, S (1999) Designs for Living: The comparative approach to normalisation for the new millennium. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Emerson, E (2001) Challenging Behaviour: Analysis and intervention in people wit, severe intellectual disabilities (Second Edition) Cambridge: Cambridge University, Press.

Emerson, E, Hatton, C, Bromly, J & Caine, A (1998) Clinical Psychology and people with intellectual disabilities. Whiley: Chichester.

Emerson, E & Hatton C, (1994) Moving out: The impact of relocation from hospital to the community. London: HMSO

Emerson, E, Hatton, C, Thompson, T, Parmenter, T (2004) The international handbook of Applied research and intellectual disabilities. John Whiley and Sons: Chichester

Kroese, B, Dagnan D & Loumidis, K (1997) Cognitive Therapy for people with learning disabilities. Routledge: London.

Mansell, J & Ericsson K (1996) Deinstitutionalisation and community living Intellectual services in Britain, Scandinavia and the USA. Chatman and Hall: London

Core internet linksEdit

• The Learning Disability Review
• European Intellectual Disability Research Network
• Department of Social Security
• British Institute for Learning Disabilities
• Mental Health Foundation
• IASSID - International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual disability
• Norah Fry Centre
• The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
• Welsh Centre for Learning Disabilities

• Connects, the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities portal
• National Down Syndrome Society
• Mencap
• Mind - The Mental Health Charity
• The Sainsbury Centre
• STEPS - Structures towards Emancipation, Participation and Solidarity - Action Research Project in the European Union Community Action Programme to combat Discrimination
• National Autistic Society