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A Framework for Learning: For Adults with Profound and Complex Learning Difficulties

by Caroline Allen

This work offers carers, practitioners and managers: a structure for enabling adults with a range of complex needs to develop their individual skills and experience; and a flexible framework which is suitable for specialist colleges and training centres for people with learning difficulties. The book is suitable for use in mainstream colleges enrolling students with more complex needs, social services departments and day centres, therapy centres, leisures services and homes.

Adults With Learning Difficulties: Education for Choice and Empowerment : A Handbook of Good Practice

by Jeannie Sutcliffe

Rising to the Challenge: A Styles Approach to Understanding Adults With Add and Other Learning Difficulties

by Sally R. Snowman

This 7 x 10 illustrated book is full of important insights for adults with ADD, their family and friends. Due to many requests, this 1996 book was followed in 1997 by Rising to the challenge 2 -- a workbook (entry above). For adults with ADD and other learning difficulties, Dr. Snowman is a glowing example of "been there, done that." While learning to deal with her own problems, Dr. Snowman became a learning specialist; she earned her doctorate from Walden University and her masters in education from Curry College, where she has served on the faculty. At the Snowman Learning Center in Plymouth, Mass., Dr. Snowman provides psycho-educational assessments, one-on-one educational sessions, ADD coaching, LD/ADD support groups and career counseling. She also conducts workshops on such topics as learning styles, total quality management strategies, time management strategies and career exploration.

Facing Learning Disabilities in the Adult Years

by Joan Shapiro and Rebecca Rich

Technically, learning-disabled individuals are those who experience difficulty in one or more academic areas despite displaying average or better IQ; 20 percent of all school-aged children in the United States fall into this category. Sternberg (psychology and education, Yale) and Grigorenko (a research scientist at Yale) argue that this criterion is inadequate because it does not differentiate between physiological and external causes. Furthermore, they support flexible teaching methods that address students' individual needs within the classroom and question the wisdom behind encouraging students to train for careers in which their learning disability will cause significant problems. Parents of learning-disabled children will first want a title geared toward negotiating the current system, such as Corinne Smith and Lisa Strick's Learning Disabilities A to Z (LJ 6/1/97), but academic and larger public libraries should also collect this. Broader in scope than Our Labeled Children, Shapiro and Rich's book is a basic primer for those who have become aware in adulthood that they may have a learning disability. The discussion encompasses deficit/ hyperactivity disorder and dyscalculia (difficulty with mathematics) as well as dyslexia. Shapiro and Rich, both experts in special education, describe rather than critique the current system of educational accommodations. Highly recommended as a unique source of information targeted to learning-disabled adults themselves, this belongs in most public libraries.AMary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Adults with Learning Disabilities

by Noel Gregg, Cheri Hoy, and Alice F. Gay

Review
"This text provides a comprehensive review of theoretical and practical perspectives of diagnosis, eligibility, sociocultural factor, and current research concerning these adults. Informative chapters on sociocultural factors and neurobiological research expand current thinking about how to best serve this population." --Intervention in School and Clinic

"...a comprehensive review of the issues involved in the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities in adults....Because the readings in the text provide an astute, non-jargon based description of the empirical and political issues involved in adult learning disability assessment, Adults with Learning Disabilities is an informative guide for consumers, parents, educators, and researchers interested in these issues." --Disability Studies Quarterly

"...provides an excellent overview that will be valuable to clinicians who work with adults with LD." --Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Communication and Adults with Learning Disabilities (Exc Business And Economy (Whurr))

by Anna van der Gaag and Klara Dormandy

Though working with people with learning difficulties has become an increasingly important speciality for the speech therapist, much of the rationale for this work has yet to be established. Practitioners are still evaluating their role in working with the learning disabled, and are trying to develop appropriate models of assessment and intervention.

This book is intended to aid speech therapists in this task by providing ideas based on an ideology in keeping with the current trends in services to people with learning difficulties. After critically examining existing methods, the authors draw on their combined experience in linguistics and ethnography to provide a rationale and operational guidelines to deal with assessment, intervention, establishing criteria for entry to and exit from therapy, developing shared perspectives and manipulating the environment in order to facilitate communications in context.

The concluding part of the book looks at service provision in health, education, social services and private establishments, suggesting ways in which speech therapists may best utilize their skills and time in these settings.

Hanging by a Twig: Understanding and Counseling Adults With Learning Disabilities and ADD (Norton Professional Books)

by Carol T. Wren and Jay Einhorn

Combines poignant stories told by learning disabled adults with advice for therapists counseling them. This book provides counselors with insight into the personal dimension of learning disabilities and ADD, as well as practical guidelines for their assessment and treatment. Carol Wren shares powerful stories of adults with learning disabilities, letting readers hear their anger, depression, and struggles with substance abuse. Her framework links LD with certain emotional problems, while Jay Einhorn's commentary adds guidance on counseling LD adults.

Succesful Young Adults with Learning Disabilities: A Case Study of School Experiences

by Stephanie Fullarton

The contents of this book examine how schoolexperiences, individual characteristics and theenvironment contribute to the post-secondary schooloutcomes of adults with learning disabilities.The purpose of this research was to investigate theexperiences of individuals who have learningdisabilities and who received accommodations while inschool. Emphasis was placed on the participantsschool experiences, individual characteristics, andenvironmental conditions. This qualitative researchexamined the experiences of four individuals throughthe method of in-depth interviewing and created fourcase studies. The findings from this study showed theimportance of early identification and remediation.Progress was made during elementary school but thelack of services offered in secondary school producednegative experiences for the participants. However,these individuals experienced success at universityas they felt a sense of control over what and howthey learned. As well, the parental support availableto them enhanced their school experiences andfacilitated successful outcomes.

Adults with Learning Difficulties

by Jean O'Hara and Anthea Sperlinger

The growth in the number of people with learning disabilities living in the community presents a major challenge to healthcare professionals, particularly those in primary care services and specialist learning disability services. This book draws together authoritative and helpful information on key concepts, difficult issues, and practice guidelines. The inclusion of checklists on key topics offers guidance and good practice. Readers should obtain an understanding of the issues relating to adults with learning disabilities, with the added benefit of being shown how this information affects both professional practice and the service offered to the client group. The choice of topics covered in the book has been guided by both users and providers of the services and includes: family aspects, communication, primary healthcare needs, challenging needs and problematic behaviour, mental health needs and emotional distress, cultural issues, consent issues, and vulnerability issues.

Adults with Learning Difficulties

by Alex Kelly

Finding You, Finding Me: Using Intensive Interaction to Get in Touch With People With Severe Learning Disabilities Combined With Autistic Spectrum Disorder

by Phoebe Caldwell

Phoebe Caldwell's remarkable new book makes accessible for the first time the complex, intricate inner and sensory worlds of people whose learning disabilities are combined with autistic spectrum disorder and, often, difficult-to-manage behaviour. Based on many years of working with such people, many of whom have withdrawn into a world of their own, she explores the different sensory reality they experience, showing it to be infinitely more complex and varied than is widely understood. She introduces a practical approach known as Intensive Interaction, which uses the body language of such people - who have hitherto largely been regarded as unreachable - to get in touch with them, giving them a way of expressing themselves, which shifts their attention from solitary self-stimulation to shared activity. The outcome is not only a marked improvement in behaviour and ability to communicate but, more important, many parents will say 'they are just much happier'. Covering not only the practical aspects of introducing this technique, but also the thinking behind it, this landmark book has much to say on behalf of a group that has in the past largely been denied a voice, and will open new avenues for both practice and research. It is invaluable for parents, carers, and all who work with this group.

Implementing Intensive Interaction in Schools: Guidance for Practitioners, Managers and Co-ordinators

by Mary Kellett

Aimed at practitioners, co-ordinators and managers in schools using intensive interaction with pupils who have severe and complex learning difficulties, the text addresses a range of challenges across special, inclusive and ever-changing contexts.

Interaction in Action: Reflections on the Use of Intensive Interaction

by Dave Hewett

Offering nine descriptions of the day-to-day work of staff and parents working with people with severe and complex learning difficulties, this book aims to help the reader appreciate the purpose and applications of "intensive interaction". It also outlines the principles of the approach and the basic, practical techniques. The editors reflect on the issues which arise from these accounts and consider developments in interactive approaches.

Using Intensive Interaction and Sensory Integration: A Handbook for Those Who Support People With Severe Autistic Spectrum Disorder

by Phoebe Caldwell and Jane Horwood

People with severe autism experience the sensory information they receive from the world completely differently to those not on the spectrum. They feel cut off and overwhelmed, and their behaviour can become very distressed. This handbook shows how we can engage with people who are non-verbal or semi-verbal and sometimes even those who have speech but lose the power to process it when they are in crisis. We can help them to make sense of the world. Intensive Interaction uses a person's own body language to make contact with them and Sensory Integration develops the capacity of an individual to receive, process and apply meaning to information provided by the senses through targeted physical activities. These techniques can be used to develop an environment tailored to the particular sensory needs of the person with severe autism, reducing factors that cause distress.With illustrations, case examples and a wide range of tried-and-tested techniques, this practical guide provides indispensable tools for parents, carers and other professionals supporting people with severe autism and other learning disabilities.

A Practical Guide to Intensive Interaction

Access to Communication: Developing the Basics of Communication with People with Severe Learning Difficulties Through Intensive Interaction

by Nind & Hewett

This work is aimed at all who work or spend time with people who have learning difficulties, especially those who do not yet use language. The focus is on opening up the fulfilment and joy of human interaction to people who are remote from communication and companionship.

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