Download or read book Understanding Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities in Adults written by EENAGH. LYLE and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what happens to people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) when they reach adulthood. It provides an examination of various terms and definitions in use and a critical exploration of current UK policies. The author brings a wealth of many years' experience as a family carer, independent consultant and trainer to demonstrate the significant changes that a person-centred, specialised therapeutic and incremental approach can make to an individual's life. Advances in medical science mean more than ever, people with (PIMD) are growing into adulthood. What is this experience like for an adult who needs support in all aspects of their life? How do we include them in planning support when their intellectual disability means they cannot tell us first hand, what they want or need? Too often this group are overlooked or considered as an afterthought in policy and planning. Notions of independence, employment and mainstream inclusion are all problematic policy ideas for this group of people. Within one-size-fits-all service planning this focus means there is less capacity to meet their life-long specialist, complex and individualised needs. Understanding Profound and Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities in Adults is essential reading for anyone who is involved in the lives of adults with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, whether as a researcher, student, carer or policy-maker.
Download or read book Belonging for People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities written by Melanie Nind and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pushes the boundaries in the way we approach people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, and in how we work with them in education and research. While it is grounded in diverse theoretical frameworks and disciplines, the book coheres around a commitment to seeing people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities as equal citizens who belong in our classrooms, research projects and community lives. Each section covers policy contexts, key ideas and recent research. Featuring contributions from around the world, the book incorporates established and new voices, different disciplines and experiences. Additionally, it includes pieces from family members of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. Divided into three parts, the book explores three main topics: Belonging in education Belonging in research Belonging in communities Belonging for People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities is an invaluable resource for scholars, professionals and postgraduate research students with an interest in children or adults with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.
Download or read book Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities written by Jillian Pawlyn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-01-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children and adults with profound and multiple learningdisabilities (PMLD) are among the most marginalised people insociety. They have some of the highest support needs and are mostreliant on services. This accessible text presents and promotescurrent best practice regarding interventions to meet the complexhealth needs of a person with profound & multiple learningdisabilities. Practical in focus, this text provides evidence-basedguidance on meeting the complex needs of a person with PMLD. The text presents a range of complex health needs that apractitioner may face, such as communication, nutrition, epilepsy,vision and mobility. Each practice-focused chapter provides cleardefinitions of the condition, with current evidence-basedbest-practice supporting the intervention. Written by a team of professionals who have wide experience andinterest in this subject area, this text will be invaluable for allthose working with, and caring for those with profound and multiplelearning disabilities.
Download or read book Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disabilities written by James Hogg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-02-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook helps professionals working with adults with intellectual disabilities to establish the needs of individuals through systematic assessment and to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the service they provide. A comprehensive handbook for professionals working with adults with intellectual disabilities. Enables these professionals to establish the needs of individuals Helps them to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the service they provide. Expert contributions include conceptual chapters and descriptions of selected assessment instruments. Covers the full spectrum of need, including adults with mental health difficulties, behavioural problems, forensic needs and assessment of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, and those suspected of developing dementia.
Download or read book Narrowed Lives written by Simo Vehmas and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrowed Lives is an illuminating portrait of what life is like in Finnish group homes where adults who have profound intellectual and multiple disabilities live their lives.
Download or read book Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disabilities written by James Hogg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook helps professionals working with adults withintellectual disabilities to establish the needs of individualsthrough systematic assessment and to monitor and evaluate theeffectiveness of the service they provide. A comprehensive handbook for professionals working with adultswith intellectual disabilities. Enables these professionals to establish the needs ofindividuals Helps them to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of theservice they provide. Expert contributions include conceptual chapters anddescriptions of selected assessment instruments. Covers the full spectrum of need, including adults with mentalhealth difficulties, behavioural problems, forensic needs andassessment of people with profound intellectual and multipledisabilities, and those suspected of developing dementia.
Download or read book Raising Our Sights written by Jim Mansell and published by . This book was released on 2010* with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music Therapy for Multisensory and Body Awareness in Children and Adults with Severe to Profound Multiple Disabilities written by Roberta S. Adler and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the practical, ready-to-use MuSense program. Originally designed for music therapists working with individuals with profound multiple disabilities, the MuSense program provides comprehensive guidance to music therapists on how to effectively work with individuals whose needs can be extremely difficult to meet. Containing a robust, structured, evidence-based protocol of music therapy, and supported by case studies throughout, this book is also an essential resource in treatment planning for other diverse populations needing to develop enhanced body and sensory awareness.
Download or read book The PMLD Ambiguity written by Ben Simmons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the very idea of "profound and multiple learning disabilities" (PMLD) itself, and what constitutes appropriate educational provision for children described as having PMLD. It considers the role of ambiguity in articulating the life-worlds of children with PMLD.
Download or read book A Guide to Psychological Understanding of People with Learning Disabilities written by Jenny Webb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the people we describe as having learning or intellectual disability? Many clinical psychologists working in a mental health setting are now encountering people with learning disabilities, in some cases for the first time. This book provides the background information and understanding required to provide a basis for a truly inclusive and effective service for people with learning disability. In A Guide to Psychological Understanding of People with Learning Disabilities, Jenny Webb argues that we need a new, clinically-based definition of learning disability and an approach which integrates scientific rigour with humanistic concern for this group of people, who are so often vulnerable to misunderstanding and marginalisation. Psychological approaches need to be grounded in an understanding of historical, theoretical and ethical influences as well as a body of knowledge from other disciplines. The Eight Domains is a simple but holistic method for information gathering, while The Three Stories is an integrative model of formulation for use in relation for those people whose needs do not fit neatly into any one theory. Divided into three sections, the book explores: Understanding the context Understanding the person: eight domains Making sense: three stories. This book provides an invaluable guide for trainee clinical psychologists and their supervisors and tutors, working with adults with learning disability. It will also be valuable for clinical psychologists working in mainstream settings who may now be receiving referrals for people with learning disability and want to update their skills.
Download or read book Affect Attunement in Communicative Interactions Between Adults with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities and Support Workers written by Sheridan Lee Forster and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quality of life of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) is affected by many factors, including health status, involvement in activities, and social networks; but most critical is the quality of interaction experienced by the person on a daily basis. For many people with PIMD, most of whom reside in residential services where they receive 24-hour support, the primary people for interaction are paid disability support workers (DSWs). Quality interaction is difficult to define and such definition is made more complicated when one of the communication partners does not use or seem to understand speech. Research on communication and people with intellectual disability has focused largely on people with existing symbolic communication skills (i.e., people who use words, pictures, or signs to communicate) or developing the skills of pre-symbolic communication so they can become symbolic (e.g., developing the use of objects as symbols or other consistent ways for expressing wants and needs). In interventions that aim to move a person to use symbolic communication, the focus has been on human agency. Agency refers to the quality of an individual expressing what s/he wants and a communication partner recognising that expression. Agency has been the underlying construct of interventions focused on enhancing choice and preference expression, and in research in which the estimated comprehension of the person with a disability is measured against the complexity of communication used by interaction partners. The findings of such research have indicated a tendency for DSWs' communication to be at a higher level than the assessed comprehension level of their clients.Far less attention has been given by communication specialists in the intellectual disability field to concepts related to social closeness or interactive relationships, in which the goal is not the transfer of information, but just being together with another person. Some theorists have labelled such feelings of togetherness as intersubjectivity. Although there have been differences in definitions across theorists, intersubjectivity broadly refers to the sharing of minds of two people. It has been used largely in infant development to describe the nature of interaction between parents and infants, and the way that expressions of emotion are shared through subtle intimate interactions. Stern (1985) described three particular types of intersubjectivity: interattentionality, interintentionality, and interaffectivity or affect attunement. Affect attunement refers to the use of cross model means to recast affect expressions to share feelings. The use of affect attunement by a mother with her infant has been suggested to be a key feature of the quality of an interactive relationship.The examination of affect attunement in interactions between DSWs and adults with PIMD offers the potential to open new avenues for describing quality of interactions. The aim of the present study was to see if affect attunement is used and, if so, describe the nature of affect attunement used by DSWs in their interactions with adults with PIMD in natural interactions in residential settings. In particular, the focus was on describing the frequency, modal and amodal qualities of the behaviours of both participants, and examining relationships between DSWs' gender, parenting experience, and length of time working with the person and their affect attunement. Interactions from 21 pairs of DSWs and adults with PIMD were video-recorded and 10 minutes of each dyad was analysed using the Affect Attunement and Behavioural Coding manual. Sixty-four incidents of affect attunement were found across 16 dyads. DSWs attuned to behaviours of the person with PIMD characterised by motor effort, attention, and some emotional expression. DSWs often used similar modes of expression to attune to the eliciting behaviour, but also used speech to demonstrate their attunement. Five DSWs did not use affect attunement. Exploring interaction from an intersubjective perspective has clear merit. Affect attunement is a pre-existing strength used by DSWs that may be enhanced. It may act as a much better indicator of quality of interactions than indicators focusing on the agency expressions of the person with a disability. Further research is needed to establish the relationship between the use of affect attunement and the quality of interactions. Being aware of the presence of affect attunement may have implications for therapists, both for their own engagement with people with PIMD and implications for how to encourage existing skills and support DSWs to further enhance interaction.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Disability written by Michael L. Wehmeyer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is the first comprehensive text on positive psychology and disability. Emphasizing paradigmatic changes in understanding disability, the text covers traditional disciplines in positive psychology; and applications of positive psychology to domains like education or work.
Download or read book Narrowed Lives written by Simo Vehmas and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is day-to-day life l ...
Download or read book Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Pushing the Boundaries of Inclusion written by Aileen Chapman and published by Willford Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) are those intellectual disabilities which are combined with common medical complications, profound physical disabilities and sensory impairments. They result in individuals becoming completely dependent on others. Congenital syndromes are common in people with profound intellectual disabilities. These people are unable to live self-sufficiently and require constant monitoring and assistance with their self-care. They normally have weak capability to communicate their needs and also have physical limitations. Multiple disabilities refers to a condition in which an individual is suffering from a variety of disabilities such as someone who has both a motor disability and a sensory disability. This book provides significant information on profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, as well as the theme of inclusion. Those with an interest in this topic would find this book helpful.
Download or read book People with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities written by Penny Lacey and published by David Fulton Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at practitioners who work with children and/or adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities. It includes chapters on personal and social aspects of complex needs and how to include people with profound disabilities in the community.
Download or read book Listen to Me written by Pat Fitton and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for parents, carers and professionals who have responsibilities for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, Listen to Me is a practical guide to coping with the complex problems of someone with this level of disability, asserting their rights, interpreting their needs successfully, and maintaining effective contact with all the professionals and organisations who deal with them. Using examples from the author's experience with her own daughter, each chapter deals with communicating the person's rights and needs in particular situations. It is shown how it is possible to enrich the individual's experience and ensure that others value him or her as a distinct individual with a right to a meaningful life.
Download or read book Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing Practice written by Kay Mafuba and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-respected core text provides a comprehensive solid foundation for students of nursing and practitioners who care for and or support people with learning/intellectual disabilities in a range of health and social care settings and scenarios. This book addresses learning/intellectual disability nursing from various perspectives, including historical and contemporary practice, health promotion, interventions for good mental health, people with profound disabilities and complex needs, care across the lifespan, and forensics. This new edition has been comprehensively updated throughout and now includes two entirely new chapters. One covers liaison nursing, and the other explores the future for learning/intellectual disability nursing. The book includes numerous case studies and learning activities to support the reader, as well as remaining clinically relevant. Uniquely this text is linked and benchmarked to the Nursing and Midwifery Councils, UK – Future Nurse Standards of Proficiency and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland’s Competencies for nursing students. This text is essential reading for anyone studying learning/intellectual disabilities at undergraduate and post-graduate levels; it will also be a useful resource for the wider family of nursing, as well as health and social care professionals.
