British Journal of Learning Disabilities

Official Journal of the British Institute of Learning Disabilities

Edited by:
Dorothy Atkinson and Gordon Grant

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The British Journal of Learning Disabilities is an international peer-reviewed journal with a multidisciplinary approach. The focus of the journal is on practical issues, with current debates and research reports. Its readers and authors are academics, practitioners, and others interested in learning disability from a personal or professional perspective. The aim of the Journal is to promote better lifestyles and high quality services for adults and children with intellectual disabilities wordwide.  Topics include:

• Current trends in residential and day-care services
• Integration, rehabilitation and quality of life
• Education and training
• Employment and occupation
• Recreation and leisure
• Advocacy and rights
• Family and carers
• Adoption and fostering
• Causes and management of specific syndromes
• Staff training; new technology in practice
• User involvement in services and research
• Ethics
• Personal and family interventions evaluation
• Challenging behaviour
• Personal safety
• Bereavement and end-of-life issues
• Physical interventions
• Communication with people with severe and complex disabilities

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Articles Published Online Ahead of Print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our OnlineEarly feature before the print edition of this journal is published.

Free Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI  initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO).

Online Open
The British Journal of Learning Disabilities participates in a Blackwells scheme to allow authors that wish to allow open access to their papers to pay for the publication cost. Authors should NOT indicate at the point of submission whether they will wish to make use of this facility. If the paper is accepted, they will be given an opportunity to make their wishes known at that time. 
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