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• Learning Disability & Hodges model

  
  Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD — Authority: 125
  It is Brian E Hodges who created Hodges model in the early 1980s and one of his qualifications is RNMH - Registered Nurse for the Mentally Handicapped . Today this course and qualification is known as RNLD, that is - Registered Nurse for Learning Disability. What has not changed is the foresightedness and ...
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• Most people with learning with learning disabilities should not have children, says columnist

  
  Mad World — Authority: 126
  Thought I would draw your attention to an interesting column in The Times, in which Minette Marrin argues that many people with learning disabilities should not have children, due to cost reasons and the implications for the children.
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• Raising a Different Child: Intervention

  
  Green Diva Mom — Authority: 130
  ©iStockPhoto.com - Philippa Banks The previous installment discussed discovering that your child is different, whether because of autism, learning disorder or attention disorder. Click here to read Discovery The first, and possibly the most fraught, step in developing an intervention plan is determining what ...
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• Coaching Your Dyslexic Child Book

  
  Best Online Earning Ideas — Authority: 467
  World Leading Athority on Dyslexia Releases Latest Dyslexia Book. Coaching Your Dyslexic Child - A Step by Step Guide.
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• Be careful what you wish for

  
  The Bean Blog — Authority: 126
  Ever had one of those really bad days where you seemed to be late for everything and everything went wrong? Today was one of those days for me. Lee got a job. This is actually wonderful news. He’s been looking for a job ever since he graduated last May (actually since before he graduated) and he just hadn’t found ...
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• The Students Learning Disability

  
  Health Assistant Feed — Authority: 112
  No one ever said school was a breeze. Almost all of us experience different challenges at school, but some have mental and physical limitations that make coping more difficult. These are called learning disabilities. Learning disabilities interfere and affect our ability as a students to read, write and speak, or ...
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• Raising a Different Child: Discovery

  
  Green Diva Mom — Authority: 130
  ©iStockphoto.com - mrPliskin From the time mothers are children themselves, playing with dolls, they dream of how intelligent, athletic and amazing their children will be. A woman carrying a child is confident that child is going to be the first and best of every achievement imaginable.  Her child is going to be ...
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• Week in review: Droid vs Eris, Google acquires Admob

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Which phone should you buy: Droid or Eris? Go with the Droid! — “Like many phone buying Americans, my budget is tighter than the average consumer’s pants after Thanksgiving ...
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• What do you think about this judge ordering parents to give their cancer child chemo because of “neglect”?

  
  The Word Is Hope — Authority: 141
  Their son has cancer, they have not given him chemo because they don’t believe in medicine. His cancer has gotten worse, and a Judge ordered them to get him chemo if an oncologist deems necessary.What do you think about this?http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_he_me/us_med_forced_chemoThe 13 year old boy also has a ...
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• Tate Liverpool gets Night Fever: Step back in time and re-live the 1970s with ‘Magic Mirror Ball’

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  Tate Liverpool gets Night Fever: Step back in time and re-live the 1970s with ‘Magic Mirror Ball’ -1.0 5 2009-11-05 00:08:11 1stAngel Tate Liverpool Public information number: 0151 702 7400 Thursday 26 November 2009 (19.00 – 22.00) Admission: £5 Enquiries & bookings: 0151 702 7400 Accessible ...
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• NYC Special Needs School Fair at the JCC in Manhattan

  
  NYC Private Schools Blog — Authority: 429
  The Special Needs School Fair which took place at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Manhattan on Thursday evening, October 29, 2009 is a wonderful resource for parents and professionals who want to learn what’s available for special needs children in NYC and environs. This is the fourth year that the Fair is ...
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• Getting It Wrong: Rate Your Students and Ableism

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  [Possible trigger warning for upsetting and ableist language] As some of you may know, I am a graduate student getting my Master’s Degree in Women and Gender Studies. I currently have vague career aspirations of getting my PhD or at least remaining in academia in some capacity; my academic interests primarily have ...
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• Boundless 2 - Connecting Artists

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A unique group exhibition showing the work of artists with learning disabilities alongside mainstream artists
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• The other side of dyslexia

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Dyslexia Awareness Week focuses on the benefits it brings to a sufferer, such as high IQ, curiosity and a strong work ethic I didnt discover I was dyslexic until I was 50. After discovering our children were dyslexic my wife, wanting to support the children, took herself off to study dyslexia and qualified as an ...
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• How to Deal With Dyslexia

  
  Through The Illusion — Authority: 460
  Dyslexia is a word I can almost never type correctly the first time.  (Dyselxia!) It’s also the thing I didn’t realize I had until college! What is dyslexia? Dyslexia is a learning disorder that “manifests itself primarily as a difficulty with reading and spelling”.  Scientists believe that it is a ...
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• Boy rushed to hospital after swine flu jab

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 570
  By Lisa smyth Tuesday, 27 October 2009 The safety of Northern Ireland’s swine flu vaccination programme was called into question today by the parent of a young special needs pupil who ended up in hospital just hours after getting the jab. Anne Marie Fletcher said she feared her 15-year-old son Rhys was ...
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• Looking for beds

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 418
  Something of a theme on my caseload at the moment is one of ‘delayed discharges’. I have three people in hospital medically ready for discharge and am waiting for residential or nursing placements to ‘pop up’. It’s a warped kind of waiting game with no beds being available locally and people increasingly ...
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• The human cost of screening for Downs

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  We must provide better information about Downs syndrome to help inform the traumatic decisions behind the statistics Bland statistics usually conceal personal dramas, even tragedies. So it is with the statistics on Downs syndrome diagnosis . Many more women are being told they are carrying a baby with Downs ...
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• In the balance

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A national care service focusing on older people has led to fears that people with lifelong conditions will be sidelined As the fanfare of publicity over the governments green paper on social care subsides, one campaign is warning that too much attention is being paid to older people. The Learning Disability ...
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• The Kerry Robertson Story. The New Aryan Nation or what happens when the UK says you are to stupid to have children.

  
  Upstream — Authority: 104
  If Jesus returned to earth we would kill him again, but this time we wouldn’t nail him to a cross. Instead we would strap him to a gurney, put him to sleep, and drip poison into his veins until he expired. And so it is with our new eugenics. We don’t geld men and women any more, like we did back in the thirties ...
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