Learning Disabilities

A key textbook for pre-registration diploma and graduate nursing students of learning disabilities covering a wide variety of topics relevant not only for nursing courses, but also for care workers, OT's, and other professional and non-professional carers.
Using reader activities, case illustrations, diagrams, figures, tables, and further resources the author guides the reader through this complex and delicate area

Contains case studies and reader activity to aid learning

Fifteen new chapters, covering areas such as: therapeutic interventions; alternative, art, drama and dance and other psychological approaches are presented in detail; relationships in learning disability; chapters on LD in other European countries. Will become the bumper edition on the subject area, the leader in the field.

New contributors

Subtitle: 'a handbook of care' resurrected to define the reader market.

In addition to Bob Gates' role as senior lecturer, he became Director of theEast Yorkshire Learning Disability Institute. He is editor in chief of the Journal of learning Disabilities and has authored/edited 5 books.