Learning Disabilities

Readable and well-researched information for the public

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The Royal College of Psychiatrists' Faculty of the Psychiatry of Learning Disability and the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust have produced a new series of very accessible information for people with mental health problems and learning disabilities. All these materials have been written and tested with people with learning disabilities and their carers.

These leaflets can be easily printed off from this page. The help and support section at the end of each leaflet can be completed by the person being given this information, to include contact details of their GP, Psychiatrist, Community Nurse or any other professional involved in their care.

We would welcome any feedback on these leaflets. Please email dhart@rcpsych.ac.uk at the College.

We are grateful to:

• Dr Sab Bhaumik (former chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Faculty of Learning Disability)
• Louise Talbott and Jane Parr (speech and language therapists)
• Dr Shweta Gangavati, Dr Abdul Shaikh, Dr Avinash Hiremath, Dr Satheesh Gangadhara, Dr Paul Winterbottom and Dr Ray Jacques
• Members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' user and carer group.

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