Category: Multiple Disability

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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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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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