Learning Disabilities

Readable and well-researched information for the public

The Young Mind: an essential guide for parents, teachers and young adults.  Order your discount copy from us - 20% off.

For anyone who is worried about themselves, a friend or a relative.

• Depression in people with learning disabilities : our main leaflet
• Learning disability and mental health : leaflet for carers of, and professionals working with, people with learning disability  

• 'Your guide to taking medicine for behaviour problems' - A leaflet for people with learning disability

• Eating well

• Smoking and mental health

• Exercise and mental health

Reading about Self-Help

• Autism and Asperger's Syndrome

Children and young people

• Specific learning difficulties : what parents and teachers need to know
• The child with general learning disability : what parents and teachers need to know
• Understanding autism and Asperger's syndrome : what parents and teachers need to know

• Depression in people with learning disabilities a translation of our main leaflet

links to other organisations

Books for the public

• Books Beyond Words :Series of picture books for use by people with learning disabilities to make communication easier and allow for discussion.

• Learning disability - A list of Gaskell publications by speciality
• OP48. DC-LD - Diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders for use with adults with learning disabilities/mental retardation
• Psychiatric Services for Children and Adolescents with a Learning Disability, CR123
• Seminars in the Psychiatry of Learning Disabilities - Second edition

• About our leaflets
• Psychiatry of Learning Disability Faculty