A third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties, research has found. However, in most cases, parents’ conditions were only identified at the court stage ...

There are 1.5 million people with a learning disability in the UK People with a learning disability find it harder to learn, understand and communicate. There are 1.5 million people with a learning ...

Do you have an employee with a learning difficulty that you at first weren’t aware of? Or perhaps that employee didn’t even realise they had learning difficulties until they found themselves ...

When is a learning difficulty actually a disability? To be protected under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA), a disabled person must have a physical or mental impairment which has a ...

A learning disability is defined by 3 core criteria: lower intellectual ability (usually an IQ of less than 70), significant impairment of social or adaptive functioning, and onset in childhood.

THROUGH our work the NSPCC and Childline speaks to lots of young people and we understand that every child is different. Everybody’s brain is unique and it’s natural for our brains to have differences ...

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ALMOST nine out of ten adults with learning disabilities have experienced difficulties finding a job, according to research. A recent poll of 500 people with these disabilities revealed some shocking ...

Young people and adults with a learning disability have an annual health check that includes a review of mental health problems. Annual health checks for young people and adults with a learning ...

Research carried out by the Institute of Public Care (IPC) and led by Professor Katy Burch has uncovered that a significant proportion of parents involved in care proceedings with their babies have ...

A new study has revealed the shocking scale of abuse suffered by people with learning disabilities or autism - including people admitting to using violence. The study found one in five people admitted ...

LGBT people with learning disabilities have often faced barriers when it comes to their identity - but some are now using their negative experiences to bring about change. "I thought I was going mad, ...