National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities: prevention and interventions for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges

This guideline covers interventions and support for children, young people and adults with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges. It highlights the importance of understanding the cause ...
Medscape

Pharmacological Interventions for Challenging Behaviour in Children With Intellectual Disabilities

This review and meta-analysis followed methodological and reporting guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), [25] Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of ...
Learning Disability Today

Campaigners urge government to stop the collapse of learning disability nursing

Health organisations and charities have written to Wes Streeting calling for the government to recommit to training targets ...
JSTOR Daily

Parents Whose Children with Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviour Attend 52-week Residential Schools: Their Perceptions of Services Received and Expectations of the ...

This paper reports the findings of a survey of parents whose children attended 52-week residential schools. Seventy-three parents completed a postal questionnaire which asked questions about three ...
Medscape

Aggressive Behavior in Intellectual Disability Does Not Warrant Routine Antipsychotics

January 3, 2008 — In a randomized controlled trial comparing risperidone (Risperdal, Janssen Pharmaceutica), haloperidol, and placebo in the treatment of aggressive challenging behavior in patients ...
JSTOR Daily

Mental illness, challenging behaviour, and psychotropic drug prescribing in people with intellectual disability

OBJECTIVES To describe the incidence of recorded mental illness and challenging behaviour in people with intellectual disability in UK primary care and to explore the prescription of psychotropic ...
WTOP News

Distance learning especially challenging for students with disabilities

This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. This content was republished with permission ...
Irish Examiner on MSN

Families believe children are being punished for behaviour linked to disabilities, authority warned

Cork special school has issued 17 official suspensions out of a maximum student body of just 48 in three years ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities: prevention and interventions for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges

NICE has produced an easy read version of this guideline for people with a learning disability. To find NICE guidance on related topics, including guidance in development, see the NICE topic page for ...