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Overcoming Barriers to Grief: Supporting Bereaved People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities
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Young, Hannah – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2017
Objectives: Engaging people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) in relation to issues of bereavement and loss is often seen as a complex therapeutic challenge. The author examines the barriers preventing them from engaging with the grieving process in supported ways. Methods: Through the lens of Worden's Tasks of Grief…
Descriptors: Barriers, Grief, Severe Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
Learning about Dying, Death, and End-of-Life Planning: Current Issues Informing Future Actions
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Wiese, Michele; Stancliffe, Roger J.; Read, Sue; Jeltes, Gail; Clayton, Josephine M. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2015
Knowing about dying and death is a typical part of lifelong learning, gained through personal experience with the death of loved ones, popular culture, and formal education. Sudden and unexpected death aside, adults in the general community can use this knowledge to plan for the manner of their dying. Such planning might include will making,…
Descriptors: Death, Lifelong Learning, Adults, Planning
Responding to the Needs of People with Intellectual Disability and Epilepsy: Shared Priorities
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Kerr, Michael; Linehan, Christine – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2015
The primary objective of this paper is to present recent advances in our understanding of epilepsy and to discuss the implications of these advances to optimise health and social care supports for people with epilepsy and intellectual disability (ID). The high prevalence and impact of epilepsy among people with ID has been well described.…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Epilepsy, Health Services, Social Support Groups
Communicating about Death and Dying: Developing Training for Staff Working in Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities
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Tuffrey-Wijne, Irene; Rose, Tracey; Grant, Robert; Wijne, Astrid – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
Background: Many people with intellectual disabilities are affected by death, yet conversations about death are often avoided by staff working with them. This study aimed to assess staff training needs and to develop, trial and evaluate a training course on communicating about death and dying. Method:(i) Semi-structured interviews with 20 staff in…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Death, Caregiver Role, Caregiver Training
Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1893-94. Volume 2. Containing Parts II and III
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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1896
Influential historic documents in American education are presented in Chapter I, including legislation, land grants for common schools and universities and for agricultural and mechanical colleges, Bureau of Education role, early discussion on establishing a national university, and state constitutions' education provisions. Also included are the…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Grants, Public Schools, Colleges
Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1898-99. Volume 2
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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1900
Volume 2 of the Commissioner's report includes a chapter on education and crime, which considers the relationship between crime and education with statistics included. The Canadian education chapter discusses the public education system, universities, current issues, technical and industrial education, and a section on Ontario education. Chapter…
Descriptors: Crime, Education, Statistical Data, Public Education