Tizard Learning Disability Review: Volume 21 Issue 1

“It’s our Scotland just as much as anyone else’s”

Ian Hood

The purpose of this paper is to look at some of the experiences of people with learning disabilities in Scotland during the Independence Referendum campaign, through the prism of…

Participation and engagement of people with a learning disability in the lead up to the 2015 general election

Robert Holland

As a commentary on the article by Ian Hood, the purpose of this paper is to consider participation of people with a learning disability in the lead-up to the 2015 UK general…

An investigation of the delivery of health-related accessible information for adults with learning disabilities

Clare Mander

People with learning disabilities often require support to fully understand information produced in an accessible format. What happens during the delivery of accessible…

Realising the vision of communication inclusion

Kim Hartley Kean

The purpose of this paper is to provide a commentary on Clare Mander’s paper entitled “An investigation of the delivery of health-related accessible information for adults with…

Responding to the needs of people with learning disabilities who have been raped: co-production in action

Angela Olsen, Catherine Carter

The purpose of this paper is to discuss a project that explored why mainstream rape support services are still failing to meet the needs of women with learning disabilities…

What are the support needs of women with learning disabilities who have been abused?

Michelle McCarthy

In discussing some of the issues arising from the article by Angela Olsen and Catherine Carter, the purpose of this paper is to draw readers’ attention to the various support…

General hospital care for people with intellectual disabilities

Gyles Glover, Sebastian Fox, Chris Hatton

The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent of compliance of commissioners and providers of hospital services in England with their duty under equalities legislation to be…

A Human Rights Perspective on Reducing Restrictive Practices in Intellectual Disability and Autism

Peter Baker

Editorial

Peter McGill, Jill Bradshaw