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Research News

We regularly publish news from our research partners and how it is informing our services to families.

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Seminar Review – To Mortality And Beyond

For the June CIDD seminar, we heard from Professor Stuart Todd - Professor in Intellectual Disability research at the University ...
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Improving The Health And Wellbeing Of People With Intellectual Disabilities

Professor Cairns is Director of the Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory, and Professor of Health and Neurodevelopmental Conditions in the School ...
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Your experiences matter

PhD student Louise would like to interview parents who have experience of looking after a child with an acquired brain ...
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Diagnostic Overshadowing Webinar Review

A recording of the webinar is now available at the end of this article if you’d like to catch up ...
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Embracing Complexity: Top 10 Priorities for Research on Neurodivergence

Embrace Complex coalition carried out the Research Priority Setting to identify what areas of research are the most important to ...
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Research Journeys: Breaking down barriers: Access for all

"In identifying the barriers to disability rights implementation we can begin to understand why and how some services are accessible ...
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Positive Family Connections Report

Our partnership with Centre for Research in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (CIDD) at the University of Warwick focusses on family ...
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Research Into Sibling Relationships

The Cerebra 1000 Families Study is exploring the experiences of families who live with a child with a learning disability ...
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Written evidence submitted by the Legal Entitlements and Problem Solving (LEaP) Project, Cerebra

We have published our evidence to The Education Committee, which is assessing the current system of children's social care in ...
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Have You Applied for a Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) for your Disabled Child?

This is your chance to feed back your experience of applying for a Disabled Facilities Grant to the government because ...
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