Month: December 2018
Masturbation – working with people with learning disabilities (training course)
Intimate self touch and masturbation can be difficult for professionals who work with people with learning disabilities to deal with, particularly when it happens in public, or in front of other clients.
Sometimes people with learning disabilities are carrying out the masturbation somewhere private and appropriate but they are not able to masturbate effectively, or they use objects that are not fit for purpose, so they hurt themselves.
The aim of this course is to support practitioners working with people with learning disabilities to enable clients to masturbate safely and effectively if they so choose.
BMJ Blog: Preventing avoidable deaths of people with a learning disability: Is LeDeR enough?
People with a learning disability die on average 16 years younger than people without a learning disability. It is estimated that 1,200 people with a learning disability die avoidably in the NHS each year. Shocking as these statistics are, we have known about the premature mortality and the significant health inequalities faced by people with a learning disability for over two decades. But who has responded and what has been done?
Research training course for people with intellectual disabilities
8 week FREE research training course for people with learning (intellectual) disabilities, starting on 30th April 2019. At St George’s University, South London.
RIPFA: Preparing young people with special educational needs and disabilities for a good adult life
The differing legal frameworks governing Children’s and Adults’ Services, combined with the range of services involved in supporting young people in transition, can create challenges for practitioners in providing joined-up support for young people.
The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) were involved in the onset of the Children and Families Act 2014 whilst this was at its aspirational Green Paper stage, and supported ministers and civil servants to write section eight of the Code of Practice – Preparing for Adulthood from the Earliest Years.