Publications and DVDs for people with learning disabilities
Last updated 02 Jun 2010, review date due 02 Jun 2012
Finding out about epilepsy (spiral-bound wipe clean book)
An excellent learning tool, written by specialists with many years’ experience in epilepsy and learning disabilities. Published by Epilepsy Action.
Managing your epilepsy (DVD and video)
Featuring a cast of young people with learning disabilities, it explains different aspects of epilepsy and how to manage it. Produced by Epilepsy Action
Spiral-bound book for people with learning disabilities and epilepsy and their carers.
Gaskell Publications. Available through Royal College of Psychiatrists:
020 7235 2351; www.rcpsych.ac.uk
We can provide references and information on the source material we use to write our epilepsy advice and information pages. Please contact our Epilepsy Helpline by email at helpline@epilepsy.org.uk.
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- Automatic substitution of anti-epileptic drugs
- National commissioning of paediatric epilepsy surgery
- National Epilepsy Week
- Save our Sapphires, protecting all epilepsy specialist nurse posts
- Women's campaigns
- Epilepsy in England: time for change
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Epilepsy advice and information
- What is epilepsy?
- Caring for a baby or young child when you have epilepsy: a detailed guide
- Children
- Depression and epilepsy
- Developing epilepsy in later life
- Driving and epilepsy
- Education
- Entitlements and benefits for people with epilepsy
- Epilepsy and learning disabilities
- The meaning of learning disabilities
- The link between learning disabilities and epilepsy
- Meeting the health needs of people with learning disabilities
- Diagnosing epilepsy in people with learning disabilities
- Treatment of seizures
- Emergency treatment for seizures that last a long time
- Further information and help and support for people with epilepsy and learning disabilities
- Publications and DVDs for people with learning disabilities
- Epilepsy and Travel abroad
- Epilepsy information for prisons
- Epilepsy, osteoporosis and osteomalacia
- Epilepsy: diagnosis, treatment and healthcare in the UK
- Epileptic seizures explained
- Flu and epilepsy
- Identity jewellery
- Inheritance
- Me and my dad
- Memory
- Mobile phones and epilepsy
- Photosensitive epilepsy
- Safety advice for people with epilepsy
- Sports and leisure
- Stress and epilepsy
- Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)
- Syndromes
- The Disability Discrimination Act
- The Equality Act and epilepsy
- Vagus nerve stimulation therapy in epilepsy
- Work and epilepsy
- Women and epilepsy
- Young people and epilepsy
- Epilepsy Action and the Information Standard
- The Epilepsies: You, Epilepsy and the NICE Guideline
- Epilepsy Action Information Reviewers (EAIRs)
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