This is fantastic - academic community coming together to celebrate learning disability week!

"Supporting young people's independence, orchestrating multidisciplinary care and ensuring effective communication are particularly challenging in the transition to adult healthcare for this population."

"Overall, the results are concerning in that they indicate a potentially increasing trend in frequency of SIB and its impact on daily activities as individuals approach adolescence, indicating the need for further longitudinal work across the lifespan."

"The Bernstein fat-free mass equation offers better accuracy in adults with Down syndrome than other resting metabolic rate prediction equations, but the equation needs to be evaluated in larger, more diverse samples of adults with Down syndrome."

presumed sexual vulnerability and sexual incompetence, and expectations of heteronormativity and asexuality. Combined these factors reduce opportunities for acquisition of sexual knowledge and enactment of sexual autonomy and ultimately appear to limit sexual literacy..." (2/2)

"Approaches for interacting with gatekeepers that may foster gate opening actions included: addressing gatekeeper concerns, educating gatekeepers about the benefits of research participation and developing relationships with gatekeepers."