Birmingham:Clinical:Curriculum: Learning disabilities

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 links

 * 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