The internship scheme is run by the hospital in partnership with the Somerset-based social enterprise Discovery, which ...

People with a learning disability and autistic people will receive better and more focused community care as part of plans to reduce the number in specialist inpatient care. The Building the Right ...

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have found that adults with learning disabilities are more likely to die from cancer compared to the general population. The most common cancer-related deaths ...

There are over 7 million adults living with developmental or intellectual disabilities in the U.S. Yet many day programs for those with developmental disabilities have a cut-off age of 22. Disability ...

People with learning disabilities with covid-19 are five times more likely to be admitted to hospital and eight times more likely to die compared with the general population of England, finds a study ...

The researchers found that adults with learning disabilities had lower odds of poor glycemic control, faster insulin initiation, and double the risk for all-cause and diabetes-related mortality, ...

BALTIMORE -- One in five people in the United States struggle with learning or attention disabilities, according to the Learning Disability Association of America. While they can make learning ...

A charity has said it must raise extra funds to continue its work supporting adults with learning disabilities. Les Amis has ...

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Reference: Learning Disability Review, 11(3), July 2006, pp13-20. Abstract This article describes the "My Day" model developed in Somerset for activity planning for inclusion, where people living in ...