Love, Learning Disabilities and Pockets of Brilliance by Sara Ryan
Find some pockets of brilliance for your practice! Insights and inspiration from families of learning disabled people, who share their lives, challenges and wishes. Discover what sorts of help will really help the people you support.
Beautifully written and absorbing, Love, Learning Disabilities and Pockets of Brilliance shines a joyful light on the kind of good support that enables people to flourishSara Ryan's book is a heartening exploration of the extraordinary role families play in the lives of their loved ones and reveals the benefits - for everyone - when practitioners embrace their experience and knowledge. An essential, rewarding read for anyone who cares about their fellow humans. -- Saba Salman, journalist and editor of Made Possible: Stories of success by people with learning disabilities - in their own words
This book should become a seminal work, central to all social work training. It will teach you more in a single chapter about love, hope and uniqueness than any other core text you can hope to find. -- from the foreword, Elaine James, Learning Disabilities Commissioner and Rob Mitchell, Principal Worker
This book should become a seminal work, central to all social work training. It will teach you more in a single chapter about love, hope and uniqueness than any other core text you can hope to find. -- from the foreword, Elaine James, Learning Disabilities Commissioner and Rob Mitchell, Principal Worker
Dr Sara Ryan is a social scientist at the University of Oxford, specialising in autism and learning disabilities. She is a mother, campaigner and author of Justice for Laughing Boy: Connor Sparrowhawk - A Death by Indifference.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781787751910 |
| ISBN 10 | 1787751910 |
| Title | Love, Learning Disabilities and Pockets of Brilliance |
| Author | Sara Ryan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Year published | 2020-09-21 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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