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Unique Connections Spring Newsletter
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Article – Learning to Listen to Non-spoken Voices. Including Young People With Intellectual Disabilities Who are Non-speaking as Primary Participants in Qualitative Research
Abstract Despite the common expectation that social research should strive to include people with relevant expertise by experience, people with intellectual disabilities who are non-speaking are rarely included as participants. Social research seeking to understand...
Churchill Fellowship Report
Dr Beverley Samways’ report focuses on the care of young people with intellectual disabilities in the UK, exploring how trauma impacts individuals, teams and the sector as a whole. It presents some of the current ways of addressing this in the US, and explores...
Podcasts with Unique Connections At The Table
Unique Connections At The Table is a podcast dedicated to exploring the profound power of human connection. Hosted by the team behind Unique Connections, who work with individuals with learning disabilities and autistic people who present with distress, this podcast...
Conversation with Dr Noelle Blackman
Dr Bev Samways talks to Dr Noelle Blackman, who brings her decades of experiences to talk through how trauma impacts people with learning disabilities. We talk through the principles of trauma informed practice, and the challenges of actually sustaining it in complex...
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