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April's Most Popular Articles...
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The Human Rights Act and Learning Disabilities: The Human Rights Act 1998 became law in Britain in October 2000, meaning that fundamental freedoms and rights are now legally… [394 views in Apr]
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The Special Educational Needs and Disability Act: When the government published their Valuing People white paper in 2001, they clearly outlined their desire to protect and… [334 views in Apr]
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Normalisation and Learning Disabilities: Until relatively recently, people with learning disabilities were often rejected and socially excluded from mainstream society.… [222 views in Apr]
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Diagnosing and Assessing Learning Disabilities: When one hears about a learning disability, they frequently assume that the term refers to students or children. While this is… [200 views in Apr]
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Social Inclusion and Learning Disabilities: Historically, people of all ages with learning disabilities have faced poor life chances, largely due to social exclusion. They’ve… [190 views in Apr]
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Learning Styles for Children with Learning Disabilities: Not everybody learns in the same way – we all have our natural preferences as to how we acquire and store the… [158 views in Apr]
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Cherry
Re: Quick Guide to Learning Disability Services
Please could you me give advice about further education for my step daughter who as learning disabilities and…
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Re: Diagnosing and Assessing Learning Disabilities
This article is both labelling and patronising. There are many people (human beings!)leading normal lives…
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Re: Diagnosing and Assessing Learning Disabilities
My son is now 17 he came out of school with a level 1 in English they didn’t help him enough to achieve…
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Re: The Special Educational Needs and Disability Act
I have a 13yo son with learning difficulties and asd traits he has been at a mainstream school but has…
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cloe1 - Your Question:Im 22 and ive got nvld and was recently told that camhs should have refered me to adult social care but…
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Re: Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities
im 22 and ive got nvld and was recently told that camhs should have refered me to adult social care but when i have talked to…
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Re: Diagnosing and Assessing Learning Disabilities
Hello, I have been through a battery of test for learning disability before and it all came out to be…
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Re: The Human Rights Act and Learning Disabilities
I’ve just had a newborn baby taken away from me because I have epilepsy and social services just judge on…
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Hi I have learning difficulties called global developmental delay and I might have others and I’m wanting…
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