| Dear Colleague,
RE: Draft guideline on learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges: service design and delivery This draft guideline and its supporting evidence are now out for consultation. We hope that your organisation will submit comments on the draft guideline; it is a valuable opportunity to ensure that the guideline considers issues important to your members. The consultation page has all the information and documents you need to comment. The consultation will close at 5pm on Monday 20 November 2017. We expect the guideline to be published in March 2018. If your organisation submits comments and a signed confidentiality form, 2 weeks before publication we will send you the final guideline, along with comments from stakeholders, so you can let us know about any substantive errors. If you have any queries about this consultation, please contact Danielle Conroy via LDCB@nice.org.uk Kind regards, Justine Karpusheff Guideline Commissioning Manager |
Category: learning disability
BBC Radio 4 Autism and Communicaiton
Michael Rosen finds out what the rest of society can learn about communication from people on the autism spectrum, by getting an insight into a different worldview. He meets Alis Rowe and Helen Eaton from the Curly Hair project. Producer Sally Heaven.
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Freedom Club night from mcch in Dartford, Kent
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NHS England appoints senior local government leader as National Learning Disability Director
NHS England has today announced the appointment of Ray James as its first National Learning Disability Director, to drive improvement across the country on services to people with a learning disability, their families and carers.
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What is developmental language delay?
Developmental language disorder (DLD) is the new term to replace specific language impairment (SLI). Up to two children in every classroom of 30 has this condition, it is probably the most common childhood condition that you’ve never heard of. ICanCommunicate caught up with Dorothy Bishop, Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford, the brains behind the Raise Awareness of Developmental Language Delay (RADLD) Campaign, to find out why the ‘rebranding’ was necessary, and what happens next.
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