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'Moss-PAS': the mental health assessments that became an international success story

Interview: Working with non-verbal patients proved fundamental for helping Dr Stephen Moss produce universal mental disorder diagnostic interview scripts.

A Beginner's Guide to Neurodiversity

Freelance autism consultant ad trainer Suzanne Comberousse writes for Learning Disability Today about what exactly is meant by the term "neurodiversity".

Have NHS efforts to reduce over medicating been successful?

In 2016, the UK government launched a groundbreaking drive to reduce the use of psychotropic drugs for people with autism and learning disabilities. But recent figures show that while prescribing rates for antipsychotics have fallen since the campaign’s launch, antidepressants, hypnotics, and stimulants have all risen.

“We wanted people with disabilities to have their own community, a place they could shape and decide on its future direction"

Neratov is a village in the Czech Republic run by people with learning disabilities, for people with learning disabilities. In this article, Stephanie Ross discusses how the village rebukes its communist history of exclusion and discrimination.

Searching for a diagnosis

Receiving a diagnosis of a learning disability can be crucial for an individual, and screening tools can help to achieve this, as Dr Karen McKenzie explains.

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'Moss-PAS': the mental health assessments that became an international success story

A Beginner's Guide to Neurodiversity

Have NHS efforts to reduce over medicating been successful?

“We wanted people with disabilities to have their own community, a place they could shape and decide on its future direction"

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Searching for a diagnosis

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Learning disability features

'Moss-PAS': the mental health assessments that became an international success story

A Beginner's Guide to Neurodiversity

Have NHS efforts to reduce over medicating been successful?

“We wanted people with disabilities to have their own community, a place they could shape and decide on its future direction"

From the archive

Searching for a diagnosis