Within This Issue
The theme for this issue is meaningful engagement. It aims to provide examples of attempts to involve people with profound and multiple learning difficulties in activities that are important emotionally and intellectually to them and that are understandable and make sense. The issue begins with an article about how important it is to involve parents and other family members as agents of change and advocates for their relatives who have severe communication difficulties. The issue also includes several articles about approaches to fostering the communication of adults and children, through music therapy, Intensive Interaction and Total Communication and in the context of a specialist feeding programme. There is also a report on one of several regional events to share the outcomes of research funded by The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities on identifying and improving the mental health support for young people with learning disabilities.
