Welcome! The purpose of this bulletin is to keep you in touch with news from the learning disability world in a monthly digest. We hope to include information on the latest policy and research along with easy read information. If you have any requests for information or if you want to share with the Oxleas learning disability community please send them to Steve Hardy or Jill Davies.
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All links are written in blue or grey and worked on the 21st August 2018.
Stories of the month!
Supermarket employee’s kindness toward autistic customer leads to $110k fund for college
The Learning Disability and Autism Leader's List 2018 - Get nominating!
Mum’s post about ‘wonderful’ Tesco delivery driver who bonded with her autistic toddler goes viral
Petition - Prevent avoidable deaths by making autism/learning disability training mandatory
My Health Guide - new resource
Social media is 'failing disabled people'
Greenwich & Lewisham Young People’s Theatre hosts nights out at Tramshed for clubbers with learning disabilities
A new Home - a new free publication from Citizen Network
Blogs
Continuing the #socialcarefuture debate
Here's how to support the mental health of people with learning disabilities
Light at the end of the tunnel - the 10 year NHS plan
Oshkosh Model With Down Syndrome Turns 3, This Is What His Mom Wants the World to Know
Petitioning for mandatory training
Siblings of disabled people know them best. Let's use their insight
Travelling around London with autism
We need more than goodwill when we write about disability
West is best! Why I love my student nursing placements in West Wales...
Books
10 Rules for Ensuring People with Learning Disabilities and Those Who are on the Autism Spectrum Develop 'Challenging Behaviour': ...And Maybe What to Do About it by Damian Milton
10 rules for ensuring autistic people and people with learning disabilities cannot access healthcare by Viki Ainsworth and Jim Blair
A mismatch of salience by Dr. Damian Milton
AUTISM UNCENSORED: Pulling Back the Curtain - Whitney Ellenby
Autism and Intellectual Disability in Adults Volume 2 - Dr. Damian Milton and Prof. Nicola Martin
Autism in a Decentered World - Alice Wexter
Behavior Support for Students with ASD: Practical Help for 10 Common Challenges - Debra Leach
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for People with Intellectual Disabilities: Thinking creatively - Andrew Jahoda et al
Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability: Biopolitics Post-Institutionalisation - Niklas Altermark
Difference Not Disorder: Understanding Autism Theory in Practice - Dr. Catherine Harvey
Learning Disability Today fourth edition - Eddie Chaplin et al
Making friends at work: Learning to make positive choices in social situations for people with autism - Saffron Gallup
Mental Health in Intellectual Disabilities 5th edition - Colin Hemmings
Person-centred Active Support Training Pack (2nd Edition) - Julie Beadle-Brown, Bev Murphy and Jill Bradshaw
Sexuality and Learning Disabilities (2nd edition) - Dr Claire Bates
Sex and the 3 Rs: Rights, Risk and Responsibilities - Michelle McCarthy and David Thompson
Successful Health Screening through Desensitisation for People with Learning Disabilities - Lisa Harrington and Sarah Walker
Safeguarding Adults: Key Themes and Issues - Gillian MacIntrye and Ailsa Stewart
Social Survival: A Manual for those with Autism and Other Logical Thinkers - Amy Eleftheriades
Successful Social Stories™ for Young Adults with Autism: Growing Up with Social Stories - Siobhan Timmins
I Am Me: My Personal Journey with My Forty Plus Autistic Son - Marlene Ringler
Belonging and Social Inclusion for People with Intellectual Disabilities - Iva Strnadova
Events
20th September 2018
Autism and Technology Conference 2018
3rd October 2018, Bognor Regis
Exploring death, bereavement and learning disability
11th October 2018, London
Real Action Against Disability Hate Crime Roundtable
20th October 2018
Pathological Demand Avoidance Conference 2018
30th October 2018Women and Girls Conference 2018
7th November 2018, London
Launch of the Greater London Learning Disabilities Community of Practice
Easy Read
Easy News - May 2018 Issue 32
Guidance and resources
Autism and Impulse Control: What You Need to Know
Child Having a Meltdown? Here Are 7 Tips to Help Calm Them
Five tips for autistic students starting college or university
How to help young adults with autism transition to adulthood
How to Use Calming Techniques to Help Autistic People
Medication Pathway
Mental Health Problems in Autistic People: What You Need to Know
This Ain’t Your Average Autism Myth-Busting Video!
News
A card-based system has created more awareness for disabled people in the UK - could it work here? - 5th August, Journal.ie
Airport’s Unique Program Allows Autism Families to Practice Before Taking a Flight - Autism Site
Ashington disco safe space for people with learning disabilities - 6th July, BBC
Autism and learning disabilities a priority for NHS - 13th August, CMM
Better health outcomes for learning disabled and autistic people must be a national priority - 19th August, Medium
Body of missing boy, 7, with autism found dead in Central Florida pond - 5th August, Palm Beach Post
Boy with autism, epilepsy forced off flight - 3rd August, DW
Cafe with ‘Space to Change’ facility now open in Cromer - 19th July, North Norfolk News
Cardiff Airport scheme allows autistic boy to fly again - 12th August, BBC
Charity takes action after huge rise in disability hate crimes - 22nd July, Yorkshire Evening Post
Churches need to adopt ‘access for all’ attitude to disabilities - 22nd July, Catholic Universe
Council school transport policies must not fail young adults with disabilities - August, Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman
Desperate parents to set up own autism school to help their kids - 11th August, Daily Telegraph
Glasgow Airport opens private changing facility for travelers with profound learning and physical disabilities - 17th August, Passenger Terminal Today
Government introduces legislation to streamline Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards - 19th July, Lexology
Hate crimes likely to spike when Brexit happens next year, police warned - 19th July, I-News
Health board and Wrexham school create “unique facility” for children with learning disabilities - 11th August, Wrexham.com
It's Shameful Care Staff's Sleep-In Shifts Go Unpaid - Time For The Government To Act - 17th July, Huff Post
Judge orders schools to make reasonable adjustments for challenging behaviour - 14th August, LDT
Lack of bursary may have deterred current crop of learning disability nursing students - 3rd August, Nursing Times
Lack of training on learning disability may contribute to avoidable deaths - 17th August, Ekklesia
Learning disability care could return to 'Victorian era' because of nurse training cuts, experts warn - 15th August, Independent
Local authority at fault for delayed assessment after DoLS referral, ombudsman finds - 2nd August, Community Care
Local mum who forced law change says ‘sexual abuse of children badly needs to be addressed’ - 6th August, Evening Telegraph
Louisville dentist offers special program for those on the autism spectrum - 19th August, WDRB
Major abuse probe at Muckamore Abbey Hospital - 26th July, The Irish News
Man with learning disability turned away from Empire nightclub for being 'too drunk' - 6th August, Teeside Live
Minister releases photos of autistic boy’s restrictive classroom called a ‘big cage’ by mother - 20th August, Riot Act
Muckamore staff ‘considering strike action’ if ‘crisis’ is not dealt with - 2nd August, Belfast Live
My son’s life might have been saved if doctors were better trained to help patients with learning disabilities - 11th July, Metro
New law introduced to protect vulnerable people in care - 3rd July, Gov.UK
New law to protect nursing staff from assaults is given the go-ahead - 24th July, RCN
New scheme to offer work skills to young Fifers with disabilities - 10th August, Fife Today
NHS apologises for 'avoidable' death of woman with learning disabilities - 10th August, ITV
NHS boss wants Lancashire learning disability unit closed - Lancashire Post
NHS England is set to make autism and learning disability a priority over next ten years - 13th August, Enable
Original play seeks to raise autism awareness - 11th November, Covington News
Parents' fear: ‘Where will Ian go when we can’t care for him?’ - 23rd July, Breaking News
Peers call for significant changes to DoLS replacement system to secure rights of service users - 20th July, Community Care
People with disabilities 'can struggle getting GP appointments' - 6th August, Courier Echo
School discriminated against expelled autistic boy, judge rules - 14th August, The Guardian
Siblings of disabled people know them best. Let's use their insight - 7th August, The Guardian
Sleep-in shift pay debate set to reach Supreme Court - 10th August, Nursing Times
Staff at Northamptonshire care home go 'extra mile' as CQC rates it outstanding - 14th August, Northampton Chronicle
Statement about LeDeR by Caroline Dinenage, Minister of State for Care - 23rd July, Parliament.Gov
Stevens sets out 10 year plan priorities - 18 July, HSJ
Sex and special needs: Why new schools guidance must embrace pupils with learning difficulties - 7th August, The Guardian
'Taboo' autism seen as 'disease' in ethnic communities - 16th August, BBC
The World Down Syndrome Congress comes to Glasgow - 26th July, BBC Scotland
'They want to make part of the human race extinct': The debate over a new pregnancy test for Down's syndrome - 11th June, ITV
Trainspotter with learning difficulties 'extremely distressed' after wrongly accused of being a sex offender on Facebook - 10th August, York Times
UK modern slavery offense charges jump 27% in past year - 10th August, CNN
Westminster changes to Mental Capacity Act threaten rights of vulnerable adults - 16th August, Nation Cymru
Requests
Research
Highest rates of depression seen in individuals with autism who have above average intelligence
Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics - Provisional Statistics (AT: July 2018, MHSDS: May 2018 Final)
Nation's largest autism study comes to East Lansing
Psychiatric adverse events in patients with epilepsy
Signs of anxiety in infancy may foreshadow autism
Self-reported measures in health research for people with intellectual disabilities: an inclusive pilot study on suitability and reliability
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