Ethos, values, attitudes and behaviours of leaders and care staff ensure people using services lead confident, inclusive and empowered lives Autistic people and people with a learning disability ...

The paper is published in Support for Learning ... pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. "Counter-connecting is a new term and new definition. For years, I have spoken with ...

Special Educational Needs (SEN) is defined as a learning difficulty or disability ... age (SEND Code of Practice 2015). Disability is defined as a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial ...

"Dyslexia is a life-long learning disability, and while it is well studied in children, there is not much research that has looked at its impact on adults." Johnson emphasizes the importance of ...

The term learning disability encompasses a wide range of specific learning difficulties. Individuals with learning disabilities are usually of average to above average intelligence, but struggle with ...

Which started before adulthood, with a lasting effect on development. This broad definition includes adults with autism who also have learning disabilities, but not those with a higher-level autistic ...

New research on premature mortality found that adults with learning disabilities over 25 years old are dying, on average, 15 years younger than adults in the general population. The research from the ...

At the age of 16, Uxbridge student Vikki Pike was functionally illiterate and told she would never graduate high school. Today, at 22, she’s defying expectations in her first year of Durham College’s ...

The definition of disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cwlth) is broad. It includes physical, intellectual, psychiatric, sensory, neurological and learning disabilities. Disability ...