The care services minister, Ivan Lewis, has announced £96m of new funding to support the resettlement in the community of people with learning disabilities Action must be taken to improve healthcare ...

Special-needs education covers a wide range of disabilities, including mild learning disabilities, moderate learning disabilities, severe/ profound learning disabilities, hearing or visual impairments ...

The HSE have not been able to fill an Intellectual Disability consultant post in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) service in Louth and Meath, it emerged in the last week. The ...

Please note - this trial is no longer recruiting patients. We hope to add results when they are available. The following bullet points are a summary of the entry conditions for this study. Talk to ...

Rainey has a moderate learning disability and was recently diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer. Rainey is frightened of dying and wants to leave hospital as soon as possible. Rainey’s consultant ...

Young people from Shropshire who have learning disabilities or autism have been able to secure jobs at local hospitals thanks to an internship project. Lauren Clarke, 23, who is autistic and has ...

A mild diagnosis may sound great but it can dramatically affect what resources a child with Down syndrome can access for the … A mild diagnosis may sound great but it can dramatically affect what ...

In England alone in 2015, there were an estimated 930,400 adults with learning disabilities (Hatton et al, 2016); most will have mild or moderate learning disabilities. This means they are likely to ...

This week is Learning Disability Week. It takes place in the third week of June every year and in 2024, it's running from the 17-23 June. The event, organised by the charity Mencap, and is an ...

Boris Johnson has been urged to move people with learning disabilities further ahead in the queue for the coronavirus vaccines. Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, who is a carer for his disabled son, ...

In this study, we are interested in assessing whether it is feasible for clinicians to deliver an adapted version of aDIALOG+ to service users with mild or moderate learning disability who have ...