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Assistive technology has the potential to help many people with learning disabilities to live more independently – yet, for some, the opportunities to access the support it can offer are restricted, and this has to change.
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A new guide has been launched to help adults with learning disabilities find employment.
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HRH The Princess Royal has called for greater use of personalised technology (PT) to help people with learning disabilities achieve their goals in life.
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The government has launched new guidance that aims to reduce the use of restraint and restrictive interventions in health and adult care settings.
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The government has published Think Autism, an update to the 2010 adult autism strategy, Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives.
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Housing, support and employment provider Advance and KeyRing, an organisation that develops and supports local networks for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems are to merge this month.
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Young people with autism are nearly twice as likely to be classified as not in education, employment or training (NEET) compared with other young people, and without urgent action to improve opportunities, we risk “writing off a generation”…
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Mencap has renewed its call for a National Learning Disability Mortality Review to be established in the wake of the latest preventable death of a person with learning disabilities at an NHS hospital.
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Only one third of the money invested in schemes to help people with mental health problems and/or learning disabilities into work goes to approaches known to make an effective difference, a study has found.
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Autism develops in children before they are born, according to a study by US researchers.
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