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Helping your child with a learning disability

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Helping your child with a learning disability

What does having a learning disability mean? A learning disability is an overall impairment of intellectual ability causing difficulty with learning and everyday activities. It affects someone for their whole life. To diagnose a learning disability professionals need to show: impaired intelligence,...

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The means, reasons and opportunities model of communication

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The means, reasons and opportunities model of communication

Introduction People with a learning disability may communicate in a range of different ways. Some people use spoken language, some people may communicate in other ways, such as signing, objects, pictures, facial expressions, or body language. Often, it is a combination of all of these. Lots of...

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Supporting children and young people with a learning disability through grief and bereavement

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Supporting children and young people with a learning disability through grief and bereavement

Children with learning disabilities experience grief when they lose someone they love, just like anyone else. Sometimes people think that it is best not to tell a child with a learning disability when someone has died in case it upsets them. However, this is mostly not helpful as it could cause them...

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