Category: Communication

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Supporting People who have Dementia and Sight Loss

Course information: Supporting People who have Dementia & Sight Loss

This is a  one-day workshop for Rehabilitation Officers and support staff. Designed to  support people who have Dementia and may be experiencing Sight difficulties.  Significantly this course is designed to give an overview of Dementia and common sight conditions experienced by older people.

Accordingly this training course will then look at behaviours associated with sight loss. Additionally,  where people are non-verbal or have difficulty explaining what is happening to them as their sight deteriorates.

This includes types of Dementia

  • Common Eye conditions of Ageing
  • Common Eye conditions linked to types of Dementia
  • Behaviours indicating sight loss
  • Strategies for support

Also  this course will then look at  potential sight testing methods, and  adaptations to daily practice including improving  the care environment to provide better support.

Conversely, this one-day course is delivered through a series of PowerPoint presentations and some group work. Presently it is available in-house for 20 people or as an external workshop or on Zoom.

On line  or face to face courses are advertised on the News and Events section.

However, it is possible to organise your own in house course for up to twenty people in a venue of your choice.

So this  course is around 7 hours in Duration with breaks for refreshments or video breaks if on line.

Who should attend?

  • Dementia Support workers
  • Home Managers
  • ROVIs
  • Learning Disability Support Workers working with people who have Down’s Syndrome  or older people with learning disabilities
  • Occupational Therapists and other related professionals

Cost:

  • In-house course £600 + VAT
  • Zoom Courses £75 +VAT

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Multiple Disability Master Class

 Multiple Disability Masterclass

Course information:

Firstly this one-day masterclass course will cover how to develop and maintain communication with people who have profound  and Multiple learning Disabilities.

Explicitly run in  the form of a “Master Class Lecture”.  This course  is  usually delivered to Students undertaking the Degree Courses in Learning Disability Nursing.

It will cover Communication Theory, Zoning, and intensive action linked to formal object and switch interface conditioning.

A male child with Multiple disabilities

Examples will be given to apply practical methods for the development and maintaining of communication.  This will further enable practitioners to support and develop choice and control for the .  Evidently, we will use  real life case studies of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities. All of whom have additional sensory problems.

This course forms part of Mark Gray Associates Commitment to the Core Standards Published by PMLD Link

Who should attend?

This course is open to all Health and Social Care professionals, parents and family carers  of people with profound and multiple disabilities are especially welcome. The course has been extensively updated to support IMCA’s IMHA’s & advocates.

It is available in-house for 20 people or as an external workshop.

Cost:

  • In-house course £800 + VAT
  • External workshops £100 + VAT
  • Zoom Workshops £75 +VAT (Where Advertised)
  • Cost includes handouts and resource information

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