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Reasonable adjustments are adaptations and accommodations that should, in theory, minimise disadvantages faced by disabled people in education, employment, and housing, as well as services such as shops, hospitals, and banks. Darren Devine discusses how reasonable adjustments could look for people with a learning disability - but how far can they address health inequalities? 

Women with learning disabilities and autism are almost four times less likely to go for cervical cancer screening tests. Here, Darren Devine looks at the efforts being made to reverse one of the most stark health inequalities affecting potentially vulnerable women.

Young people with learning disabilities are often without paid employment. Darren Devine considers whether supported internship schemes are the answer, or whether they fail to deliver what they promise.

Ambitious about Autism's Youth Council have created a resource to help tackle loneliness amongst peers and make youth groups more accessible. 

In collaboration with Slimming World, the University of Sheffield has conducted research into making weight loss programmes more accessible to people with learning disabilities. Now, Slimming World will roll out the adaptations to more than 5,000 consultants. 

Darren Devine speaks to Sir Stephen Bubb, who authored one of the key reports about the Winterbourne View scandal, calling for an end to long-stay hospital care for people with learning disabilities.

The Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) was established by NHS England to address the premature deaths of learning disabled people. Darren Devine speaks to the mother of Oliver McGowan, whose death was preventable, and a LeDeR reviewer about the initiative. 

Rahman Kebbie, 29, and Murtaza Ali, 37, are on the autism spectrum and are supported by the disability charity United Response. The two men have travelled to the busiest of European airports and train stations alone.

Darren Devine discusses the widespread nature of the use of restraint and seclusion in schools for learning disabled children, and speaks to those campaigning to change this. 

Darren Devine discusses whether behaviour that others may perceive as being disruptive should be used to limit community access.