Search results for Learning Disabilities

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• Learning disabilities

  A learning disability affects the way a person learns new things throughout their lifetime.

• Getting support

  Being diagnosed with a learning disability can be helpful.

• Shared lives schemes - Social care and support guide

  Find out about shared lives schemes, which support adults with learning disabilities or mental health problems and approved carers living together.

• Managing weight with a learning disability

  People with learning disabilities are more likely than others to be overweight or underweight.

• Support if you are going into hospital

  But there is extra support if you have a learning disability.

• How to help children and young people

  Children and young people with Down's syndrome have some level of learning disability.

• Cerebral palsy – Symptoms

  The main symptoms are movement and development problems, but other symptoms include drooling, difficulty feeding and communicating, and learning disability.

• Dyslexia in children

  Find out more about dyslexia in children, including symptoms, how to get your child diagnosed, and what support is available from your school and local authority.

• Annual health checks

  People with a learning disability often have poorer physical and mental health than other people.

• What is autism?

  Find out what autism is, including differences in how you experience the world if you are autistic