1. Introduction
2. What is learning disability?
3. People with profound and multiple learning disabilities
4. Legislation, strategies and reports for those with a learning
disability
5. Medical care and support for those with a learning
disability
6. Learning disability and consent to treatment
7. Learning disability and mental health
8. Learning disability and forensic care
9. Sexuality and people with a learning disability
10. Ageing and those with a learning disability
11. Dying, death and bereavement and people with a learning
disability
12. Care and support for those who are informal care givers
13. Disability and carer discrimination
14. Learning disability and spirituality
15. The future and learning disability
Chris Barber is a registered nurse (learning disabilities), qualifying as such in December 1989, and he holds an MEd from the University of Birmingham in special educational needs (autism). He has worked as a nurse, as a visiting lecturer in learning disability nursing at Birmingham City University, and for the eleven years up to 2021 as a full-time care-giver for his late wife. Chris is a parent of a young man who is on the autism spectrum, and he himself was diagnosed at the end of 2008 as being ‘high-functioning autistic’. Chris sits on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Nursing, the British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, and the British Journal of Health Care Assistants and has written a number of articles and papers on a wide variety of subjects including learning disabilities, care givers, spirituality and autism. He is the author of Autism and Asperger’s Conditions, published by Quay Books in 2011.
‘Overall, I am really enjoying the read, and there is a nice flow
across the book...alongside allowing the discussion and application
of the theory. I am impressed how the author has managed to discuss
such a wide range of issues in an engaging and easy-to-read format.
This should make a lot of sense to students.’
Lecturer, University of Central Lancashire
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