‘I’ve been a whizz-kid since I’ve been at college’: Giving voice to the collective memories of adults with learning disabilities about the role that technology has played in their lives

The focus of this paper is the history of technology use by people with learning disabilities in the UK in the late twentieth century and the impact that technology has had on lives of people with learning disabilities. A methodological framework, underpinned by the principles of inclusivity, transparency and reciprocity was employed to enable eight adults with learning disabilities to share their memories of using technologies, from childhood to the present day. Our analysis of these histories challenge notions of deficit, dependency and inequality that are traditionally asscoiated with people with learning disabilities

An Effectiveness of CBPL in Teaching Social Science Subject for Students of Standard VIII in context of Scholastic Achievement

The present teaching techniques needs revised thinking to make learning more effective for students. In fact the teaching methodology should be such by which the students can be involved in reading, thinking, problem solving and then learning by their own efforts. For this purpose self-learning material is a very useful technique. There are several Self Learning Techniques in which learner can learn by their own pace. In present study researcher made CBPL with the help of computer programme MS Power point. Students of Std-8 of Gujarati medium School of Gujarat were selected for the purpose of research. Purposive sampling was used for smooth work of experiment. After giving treatment to experimental group data was collected with the help of post test and t-test was applied for data analysis. Can the subject “Social Science” be made easier by using CBPL? Is the CBPL similarly effective for students having high and low educational achievement? The investigator has thought about all such crucial questions for undertaking this research. Findings show the effectiveness of CBPL

Surviving through story: Experiences of people with learning disabilities in the covid19 pandemic 2020–2021

Background: History starts from where we are now ‐ it is not just things that happened a long time ago. The global pandemic began in 2019. It has changed the lives of people with learning disabilities. We began our project during the first lockdown in April 2020. We came together to set up a website to collect stories and support and learn from each other about how to survive and keep strong. Storytelling is very important because it helps us understand what is going on. It is also a way to capture the history of people with learning disabilities at a very difficult time. We know that thousands of people with learning disabilities became ill and died in the flu epidemic of 1918. But nobody recorded their stories in their own words. We want to make sure this does not happen again, so we created an archive to help us remember. Methods: The project was managed with an advisory group of people with and without learning disabilities who met monthly to monitor the collection and analysis of stories on the site. A site audit was performed regularly to determine the themes in the stories and who had submitted. The article describes the progress of the project, the stories we have shared, and the challenges we have faced. Conclusions: We discuss how people with learning disabilities have been presented in the media and our views about the way we are not heard, or always shown as vulnerable victims. We have found many sad stories, but also positive ones about people being creative and supportive. We look forward to the future and share our ideas about how society could be different and more inclusive. Being part of this project has given us confidence to know we are not alone, and shown us how we can help with the recovery

Direct percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy performed with gastroscope

While percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is a well-known approach for achieving enteral feeding, direct percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy (DPEJ) is a technique that allows endoscopic placement of percutaneous/transabdominal feeding tube directly into the jejunum. It offers a non-surgical alternative for postpyloric enteral feeding for long-term nutritional support when gastric feeding is not technically possible or is inappriopriate. Conventionally DPEJ is done with pediatric colonoscope or small bowel enteroscope. Here, we report a case where DPEJ was accomplished with gastroscope

Integrated energy management framework for environmentally sustainable energy access

by Naran Pindoriya, Aristides Kiprakis, Ajay Choksi Kushan, S. N. Singh, Dinesh Garg, Deepak Padmanabhan and John Thompso