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8TH ANNUAL ST. AMANT CONFERENCE (Winnipeg,Canada) ON RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS RELATED TO DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES -1999 — various including Inclusion, Decision-making, Conducting Functional Assessments and Developing Behavior Support Plans, and Quality of Life Research at St. Amant Centre.
Derek Paravicini - pianist with ASD — see http://www.derekparavicini.net/
Encopresis and Pica (Excerpts from Duncan H. Blackman's files) -2005
Guidelines for Managing the Client with Intellectual Disability in the Emergency Room -2002 — There are few specialized mental health services for persons with intellectual disabilities in Ontario. Unfortunately, the first direct clinical experience the resident has with a person with intellectual disability is often in the emergency room. This encounter, positive or negative, is likely to influence the psychiatry resident’s attitude toward persons with intellectual disabilities as a group.
Healthy Ageing - Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Ageing & Social Policy -2000 — This report has been prepared by the Aging Special Interest Research Group of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) in collaboration with the Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence and The Programme on Ageing and Health, World Health Organization, Geneva
Mental Retardation A Primer to Cope with Expert Testimony -2003 — With increasing frequency, attorneys in civil and criminal cases litigate issues involving intellectual functioning. As with all forensic assessments in the civil context, no IQ or diagnosis automatically renders an individual incompetent to execute a will, to consent to treatment, to manage one’s affairs, or to be caretaker for a minor. Often, a comprehensive assessment of a client’s intellectual functioning is needed to litigate a variety of these issues.
National best practice in independent advocacy for parents with learning disabilities: a short scoping exercise -2010 — ‘Advocacy is taking action to help people say what they want, secure their rights, represent their interests and obtain services they need. Advocates and advocacy schemes work in partnership with the people they support and take their side. Advocacy promotes social inclusion, equality and social justice’.
People with intellectual disability, health needs and policy -2004 — contains a MANIFESTO ABOUT THE BASIC STANDARDS OF HEALTH CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES
People with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities: Understanding and realising their needs and those of their carers -1999 — It is now quite clear from an extensive research literature that however desirable the move from institutional and congregate settings is for people with intellectual disabilities, placement in apparently “normalised” or “ordinary” settings is insufficient to guarantee a good quality of life. Indeed the message from much of this research, most recently and comprehensively that of Emerson and his colleagues, is that positive and proactive approaches have to be implemented to realise the apparent benefits that may accrue from such settings
Practice Guidelines In Working with Individuals Who Have Developmental Disabilities -2006 — Providers should use these guidelines as a road map for effective evidence based care. We also intend consumers to use these guidelines to help them make choices about treatment decision
Practice Parameters for the Assessment andTreatment ofChildren, Adolescents, and Adults With Mental Retardation and Comorbid Mental Disorders -1999 — Update is in progress.
SACL-AGM - MAR 27 1999 — contains notes on advocacy, People's First, and other activities in Saskatchewan, Canada
Service Framework to Improve the Health Care of People with Intellectual Disability -2012 — People with intellectual disability have poorer health outcomes and greater difficulty obtaining health services in comparison with the general population. They experience a high prevalence of significant medical problems and their health conditions are often unrecognised, misdiagnosed and poorly managed.
St Amant (Winnipeg) conference notes (MC-03) — various including "Everything Worth Knowing, I learned From Being Disabled" By Norman Kunc
The Health and Health Care of People with Intellectual Disabilities
Traumatic experiences and life events in people with intellectual disability -2008 — The aim of this article is to present and critically evaluate recent research on life events and traumatic experiences as predictors of psychopathology in people with intellectual disability
Unmet Needs of People with Developmental and Intellectual Disability -2010 — This issue consists of review articles relating to some of the unmet needs of people with developmental and intellectual disability, including mental health.
Web Accessibility for People with Cognitive Disabilities: Universal Design Principles At Work! — The concept of universal design developed by the late Ron Mace, an architect and designer with a disability, revolutionized the way we think about accessibility. Ron proved that when you make something in the physical world more accessible to people with disabilities, you are actually making it more accessible to everyone.