Rights and Relationships for People with Learning Disabilities

 

Course information:

This course looks at the Human Rights Act, The Equality Act and Mental Capacity Act in relation to supporting individuals with learning disabilities with relationships and the law. It includes strategies for  support around people who are Gay, Lesbian or Transgender.

Participants will explore the law and how it how it effects their working relationship with people in care and support.  The programme will explore, through the medium of real life case studies, critical decision-making processes, in supporting people with their human rights with regards to relationships and sexuality, balanced alongside adult safeguarding issues and concerns.

Designed for and with Shropshire Joint Training Team we are confident this is a course that will resolve many issues for people working in social and health care support in this area.

Who should attend?

Support workers, home managers, ROVI’s, Learning Disability Nurses, Social Workers working with people who have learning disabilities and other related professionals

Course Deliver:

Will be by a series of PowerPoint presentations and some group work

Trainer

Mark Gray is a learning disability nurse specialising in complex needs, particularly sensory loss.

Mark has worked extensively with a wide client group of people with complex needs including people with dementia, Deafblindness and multiple disabilities. prior to running Mark Gray Associates, Mark was head of regional services for Deafblind UK and the national training research and development officer for the RNIB in Multiple Disability.

When Mark is not training, Mark Gray Associates supports a wide range of disabled people and their Personal Assistants who use continuing health care budgets and self-directed support to receive services in their own homes.

Cost

  • Available in-house for 20 people at a cost of £600 +VAT and travel  for 20 people

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Supporting People who have Dementia and Sight Loss

Course information: Supporting People who have Dementia & Sight Loss

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

The training course will then look at behaviours associated with sight loss 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

The course will then touch on potential sight testing methods and look at adaptations to daily practice and the care environment to improve support.

This one-day course is delivered through a series of PowerPoint presentations and some group work. 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.

The 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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Supporting People with Learning Disabilities who have Mental Health Issues

Course information:

The training programme will be facilitated as a series of described PowerPoint sessions and workshop sessions which result in Key Practice points for each category.

At the end of the session the group will look at their own practice reflectively and look at what things they might change or do differently in relation to the day’s additional knowledge.

Who should attend?

The course has been designed for Social Care staff and similar professionals who support people with learning disabilities in the community or in group home or day service settings.

Costs:

  • In-house course £800 + VAT

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Supporting people who are Deafblind with Learning Disabilities Course

Deafblind person doing sign language

Course information:

This one-day course on Supporting people who are Deafblind with learning disabilities  identifies the key visual and hearing conditions which combined can lead an individual to be supported as Deafblind.

It covers both congenital and acquired Deafblind issues and will provide an overview of the best communication support methods and resources for further support.

It is available in-house for 20 people and includes handouts and resource information to take home.

Who should attend?

This course is open to all Education ,Health and Social Care professionals, parents and family carers who are supporting people who are Deafblind with learning disabilities, SEN Teachers  and Parents are especially welcome.

Costs:

  • In-house course £400 + VAT
  • On line Course from £50 per person

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Putting Vision into Health Action Planning

Course information:

All people with Learning Disabilities should now have a Health Action Plan and Annual Health Check, This course explores the importance of assessing vision as part of this process and determining whether further support is needed. about a third of people with Learning disabilities could be certificated as Visually impaired another third require glasses or other visual aids.

This one-day course looks at the importance of including vision in health action planning and will identify the key issues for health care facilitators.

It is available in-house for 20 people and includes handouts and resource information to take home.

Who should attend?

All health care facilitators or staff with a facilitation role. Parents and family carers are especially welcome

Costs:

  • In-house course £600 + VAT

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Human Rights and People with Learning Disabilities

Course information:

This one-day course looks at human rights and people with learning disabilities.

Course aims:

  1. To enable participants to understand the core principles of human rights and why they are relevant to people with learning disabilities.
  2. To enable participants to understand the key features and purpose of the human rights act and how it can be used in everyday practice.
  3. To enable participants to understand how human rights principles and standards apply to in the context of their work setting.

The trainers will be using a PowerPoint based presentation with several group participation workshops throughout the day.

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

Cost:

  • In-house course £800 + VAT
  • External workshops £100 + VAT

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Disability in the Equality Act (Updated for BREXIT)

How is your compliance?

Course information:

This one-day workshop is effectively an Audit tool for your business. Gender, Age, Sexuality, Disability was pulled into one act in 2010 called the Equality ACT, it was also strengthened in parts by new additions to Disability Discrimination Law, and Human Rights Law.

This one-day workshop is designed to ensure that you make cost effective reasonable adjustment without harming your service delivery.

The day will cover what’s new in the Equality Act that you need to know including:

  • How the Human rights legislation is enforced: Myths and Facts
  • What are the key issues for people with disabilities? This covers blind and visually impaired people, deafblind, physically disabled people, people with mental health problems and people with a learning disability.
  • Getting it right; what is reasonable adjustment?
  • Access issues (staff and customers)
  • Communication issues (staff and customers)
  • Employing disabled people
  • Where you can get help?
  • (updated) What are the Implications of Brexit to Equality & rights?

It is available in-house for 20 people and includes handouts and resource information to take home.

Costs:

  • In-house course £800 + VAT

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Multiple Disability Master Class

Developing & Maintaining Communication in people with Profound & Multiple Learning Disabilities

A Multiple Disability Masterclass

Course information:

This one-day course will cover how to develop and maintain communication with people who profound  and Multiple learning Disabilities. in the form of a Master Class Lecture this is delivered to Students undertaking the Degree Courses in Learning Disability Nursing around the UK

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

Examples will be given for applying  practical methods for the development and maintaining of communication to support and develop choice and control. We will use  real life case studies of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities both 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 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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Deaf Awareness and Learning Disability

Course information:

This course explores the causes of deafness in people with learning disabilities and looks at avenues of support from the hearing test to using Hearing Aids, signed communication and environmental aids.

It is available in-house for 20 people and includes handouts and resource information to take home.

Who should attend?

This course is open to all Health and Social Care professionals, parents and family carers are especially welcome.

Costs:

  • In-house course £600 + VAT

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Supporting People with a Visual Impairment and a Learning Disability

Course information:

Our Most Popular Course

Approximately one third of the population of people with a learning disability could be registered blind or partially sighted (500,000) a further third (500,000) require glasses or contact lenses to correct their vision. Source (lookup (See ability) 2009) (Emerson. E, Hatton.C), Population of people with LD in England For Valuing People Now (2007)

However many do not get access to the right eye health support and many go blind through treatable eye conditions that are not detected because of communication difficulties.

This one-day course outlines the common visual disabilities found in the learning disabled population, the behaviours that indicate sight loss, treatments and the development of person centred care pathways and additional support that is available.

The day will also look at sight testing from both function and acuity testing perspectives and how to support the individual and their carers through eye surgery, and wearing glasses for the first time. It is available in-house for 20 people or as an external workshop.

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