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This essential text presents the core information that all nursing students and apprentices along with other key health and social care professions, regardless of field, need to know about caring for people with a learning disability and autism. It outlines some of the key challenges faced by people with a learning disability and autism and ways in which good care can improve their quality of life. People with a learning disability and autism are more likely to need support with aspects of everyday life, be marginalised within society, including within health and social care, and die younger than the rest of the population. They are also more likely to have additional communication needs, sensory processing difficulties and require significant support to access healthcare as well as other opportunities across the course of their lives.

This innovative text highlights the core knowledge that all health and social care professionals need and emphasises the benefits of learning a

An Essential Guide to Caring for People With a Learning Disability and Autistic People

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    A Paperback by Helen Jones

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 5/28/2025
      ISBN-13 9781032377582
      978-1032377582
      ISBN-10 1032377585
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      Paediatric nursing

      Description

      This essential text presents the core information that all nursing students and apprentices along with other key health and social care professions, regardless of field, need to know about caring for people with a learning disability and autism. It outlines some of the key challenges faced by people with a learning disability and autism and ways in which good care can improve their quality of life. People with a learning disability and autism are more likely to need support with aspects of everyday life, be marginalised within society, including within health and social care, and die younger than the rest of the population. They are also more likely to have additional communication needs, sensory processing difficulties and require significant support to access healthcare as well as other opportunities across the course of their lives.

      This innovative text highlights the core knowledge that all health and social care professionals need and emphasises the benefits of learning a

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