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Breast cancer surveillance in women with intellectual disabilities (2008)
Journal Article
Willis, D., Kennedy, C., Kilbride, L., Satge, D., & Sullivan, S. G. (2008). Breast cancer surveillance in women with intellectual disabilities. International journal on disability and human development, 7, 405-412. https://doi.org/10.1515/IJDHD.2008.7.4.405

Breast cancer is the most frequent malignant neoplasm observed among women. For the subgroup of women with learning/intellectual disability, it is unclear whether their risk for breast cancer is as high as it is for the general population.

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Breast cancer screening in women with learning disabilities: current knowledge and considerations (2008)
Journal Article
Willis, D., Kennedy, C., & Kilbride, L. (2008). Breast cancer screening in women with learning disabilities: current knowledge and considerations. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 36, 171-184. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3156.2008.00520.x

This paper looks at what has been written about breast screening in women with learning disabilities. Breast screening checks for lumps in your breast that might be cancer. Breast screening is done in a special clinic and machines are used to take a... Read More about Breast cancer screening in women with learning disabilities: current knowledge and considerations.

The REY figure copy as a screening instrument fro perceptual deficits after stroke. (2007)
Journal Article
Lincoln, N. B., Drummond, A. E. R., Edmans, J. A., Yeo, G. T., & Willis, D. (2007). The REY figure copy as a screening instrument fro perceptual deficits after stroke. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 61, 33-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/030802269806100108

The aim of the study was to investigate the use of the Rey figure for screening patients for perceptual impairment following stroke. Stroke patients in a trial of a stroke unit were assessed using the Rey figure copy at entry to the study. Those admi... Read More about The REY figure copy as a screening instrument fro perceptual deficits after stroke..

Same as you: health issues in women with learning disabilities after the menopause (2007)
Journal Article
Willis, D. (2007). Same as you: health issues in women with learning disabilities after the menopause. Learning Disability Practice, 10(9), 16-22. https://doi.org/10.7748/ldp2007.11.10.9.16.c6257

Rising life expectancy means that more people with learning disabilities are living into old age (Bittles et al 2002, Wilkinson and Janicki 2005). Although this is very welcome, age-related health problems such as dementia and cancer are inevitably a... Read More about Same as you: health issues in women with learning disabilities after the menopause.

Collaborative learning: comparison of outcomes for typically developing children and children with intellectual disabilities. (2007)
Journal Article
Wishart, J. G., Willis, D., Cebula, K. R., & Pitcairn, T. K. (2007). Collaborative learning: comparison of outcomes for typically developing children and children with intellectual disabilities. American journal of mental retardation : AJMR, 112, 361-374. https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017%282007%29112%5B0361%3ACLCOOF%5D2.0.CO%3B2%29

Collaborative learning is widely used in mainstream education but rarely utilized with children who have intellectual disabilities, possibly on the assumption that the metacognitive skills on which it capitalizes are less likely to be available. Effe... Read More about Collaborative learning: comparison of outcomes for typically developing children and children with intellectual disabilities..

Understanding of facial expressions of emotion by children with intellectual disabilities of differing aetiology. (2007)
Journal Article
Wishart, J. G., Cebula, K. R., Willis, D., & Pitcairn, T. K. (2007). Understanding of facial expressions of emotion by children with intellectual disabilities of differing aetiology. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 51, 551-563. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.2006.00947.x

Background Interpreting emotional expressions is a socio-cognitive skill central to interpersonal interaction. Poor emotion recognition has been reported in autism but is less well understood in other kinds of intellectual disabilities (ID), with pr... Read More about Understanding of facial expressions of emotion by children with intellectual disabilities of differing aetiology..

Emotion recognition by children with Down syndrome: investigation of specific impairments and error patterns. (2005)
Journal Article
Williams, K. R., NaWishart, J. G., Pitcairn, T. K. & Willis, D. (2005). Emotion recognition by children with Down syndrome: investigation of specific impairments and error patterns. American journal of mental retardation : AJMR. 110. . 387-392. . ISSN 0895-8017.

The ability of children with Down syndrome to recognize expressions of emotion was compared to performance in typically developing and nonspecific intellectual disability groups matched on either MA or a performance-related measure. Our goal was to (... Read More about Emotion recognition by children with Down syndrome: investigation of specific impairments and error patterns..

Is histological examination of tissue removed by GP's always necessary. Before and after comparison of detection rates of serious skin lesions. (1997)
Journal Article
Lowy, A., Willis, D., & Abrams, K. (1997). Is histological examination of tissue removed by GP's always necessary. Before and after comparison of detection rates of serious skin lesions. BMJ, 315, 406-408. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.315.7105.406

Abstract

OBJECTIVES:

To examine whether histological examination of all tissue removed by general practitioners in minor surgery increases the rate of detection of clinically important skin lesions, and to assess the impact of such a policy on... Read More about Is histological examination of tissue removed by GP's always necessary. Before and after comparison of detection rates of serious skin lesions..

Comparison of rehabilitation practice on hospital wards for stroke patients. (1996)
Journal Article
Lincoln, N. B., Willis, D., Philips, S. A., Juby, L. C., & Berman, P. (1996). Comparison of rehabilitation practice on hospital wards for stroke patients. Stroke, 27, 18-23. https://doi.org/10.1161/01.STR.27.1.18

Background and Purpose The aim of the study was to observe patients on a stroke unit and to compare their activity with that of patients on conventional hospital wards to identify aspects of rehabilitation practice that might account for differences... Read More about Comparison of rehabilitation practice on hospital wards for stroke patients..

Young men with intellectual disabilities’ constructions of the human papillomavirus and vaccine
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carnegie, E., Whittaker, A., Gray Brunton, C., Harding, S., Hilton, S., Hogg, R., Kennedy, C., Pollock, K., Pow, J., & Willis, D. (2016, November). Young men with intellectual disabilities’ constructions of the human papillomavirus and vaccine. Presented at 9th European Public Health Conference All for Health, Vienna, Austria

Scotland is one European country offering a national schoolbased
HPV vaccination programme to at least one age-cohort of females, however it does not include young men. A substantial body of literature explores and measures attitudes of young people... Read More about Young men with intellectual disabilities’ constructions of the human papillomavirus and vaccine.