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Oliver McGowan died after being given antipsychotic medicine against his and his family's wishes. His mother speaks exclusively to LDT. 
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An autism charity tells Learning Disability Today people living with anxiety or stress should be offered medical cannabis.
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Explores whether CBT can be adapted and used effectively for people with learning disabilities. 
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The question of whether to have your learning disabled child living at home or move them into supported living is as difficult as it is inevitable: explored here by Darren Devine. 
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Parent power has seen Bristol City Council ordered to reverse £5m of special needs spending council cuts by the High Court. Which council will be next?
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Some councils still insist on seeing disability as a purely physical issue, seen in blue badge discrimination.
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Medical cannabis will be available on prescription from this autumn after home secretary Sajid Javid said those facing an “exceptional clinical need” could use it - but will people with autism be eligible?
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It can go hand-in-hand with physical, financial and sexual abuse and see people victimised by extended families. And new research shows people with learning disabilities may be among the most vulnerable when it comes to forced marriage.…
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Hydrotherapy and aquatic therapy is often used for autistic children. It can go beyond decreasing stress - it is showing results in developing speech.
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“Nothing about us without us” — it’s the mantra of the movement that has moved from the fringes of the autism community to centre stage. Now it wants to challenge the notion that autism is an illness.
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