Learning Disability App

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Learning Disabilities: A Quick Reference Guide for professionals and

students in health and social care, written by Lesley Montisci. Lesley is a Learning Disability nurse with considerable experience as a nurse-consultant.

This app is a quick reference guide that aims to improve understanding

of learning disabilities and explore key themes and issues. The

information is intended to promote best practice and assist carers to

support people with learning disabilities to achieve optimum health and

well being.

The content includes:

A definition of learning disability

Causes of learning disability

Key syndromes and links to relevant support

Co-morbidity issues

Guiding principles

Diagnostic overshadowing

Pregnancy and maternal health

Death, dying and bereavement

Do's and don'ts (practical tips)

This app is intended to run on Android phones with Android 2.2 and above. It has been tested on Nexus 4 with Android 4.4.2 and HTC Wildfire with Android 2.2. It does run on tablets as well, and has been tested on the Nexus 10 and Tesco Hudl. It includes a text-to-speech feature.