Sue Read, PhD, is Professor of Learning Disability Nursing at Keele University, UK, and has worked in the area of intellectual disabilities since 1976. Her research interests include loss, death, dying and bereavement specifically, although not exclusively, with people with intellectual disabilities. She is also a practicing clinician supporting people with an intellectual disability and their families with issues of loss, end of life care and bereavement. She has disseminated her work widely through international conferences and publications.