Sect 1 Living with learning disabilities 1. The social construction of learning disability -- 2. Causes of learning disability -- 3. Eugenics: the creation and maintenance of difference -- 4. Values-based support -- 5. Ethical issues -- Sect 2 Implementing values-based support 6. Let me speak: facilitating communication -- 7. Advocacy -- 8. Personal narrative and life story -- 9. Person-centred strategies for planning -- 10. Inclusive research: people with learning disabilities can be the "artists of their lives" -- 11. Positive risk taking -- 12. Safeguarding against abuse and harm -- Sect 3 Overcoming challenges to good health 13. Enabling good health -- 14. Physical health -- 15. Sensory awareness -- 16. Epilepsy -- 17. Mental health problems in people with learning disabilities -- 18. Challenging behaviour -- 19. Working with offenders -- 20. Autism spectrum conditions -- Sect 4 Facilitating transition across the lifespan 21. Working with people to make choices -- 22. Working with families -- 23. Childhood -- 24. Leisure and friendships -- 25. Education for children and young people with learning disabilities -- 26. Employment -- 27. A place to live -- 28. Sexual and personal relationships -- 29. Growing older: meeting the needs of people with learning disabilities -- 30. End of life.