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Social care dental team
- Authors:
- KELLY Grace, ROGERS Gaynor
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 103, Summer 2012, pp.19-20.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
Some people have difficulty getting to the dentist because they use a wheelchair and have problems with transport. Others have medical problems that need special attention or have difficulty with communication. In 2008, Special Care Dentistry was established as a new specialty to make sure that disabled people have equal access to dental treatment that meets their needs. The Special Care Dentistry Service provides a dental service for people needing Special Care Dentistry. People who are disabled or have difficulty leaving home can phone to discuss treatment and possibly a home visit. The dental team has portable dental equipment which they take on a home visit. This article describes the Special Care Dental team and how it provides a full service for people with a learning disability.
Support on the job
- Author:
- LITTLE Mathew
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Young People Now, 24.7.12, 2012, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket Business Publications Ltd
Young people with special educational needs seeking jobs often come up against reluctant or inflexible employers. The Realistic Opportunities for Supported Employment Project (Rose) at Havering College of Further and Higher Education works with students with learning difficulties when they have finished Havering College courses, and actively seeks to find them paid employment. It uses job coaches to work alongside them in the first weeks of work. One young person explains how the Rose project has helped him. The article also draws parallels with the Rose project and the recently announced government supported internship pilot scheme.
Implementing a patient centred recovery approach in a secure learning disabilities service
- Authors:
- ESAN Fola, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, 3(1), 2012, pp.24-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article examines how a patient centred recovery approach was implemented in a secure learning disabilities service. The Recovery Star; a measure of individual recovery, was adopted for use among the patients. Staff underwent training on the use of the Recovery Star tool after which a multidisciplinary steering group made some modifications to the tool. It was found that implementing a recovery approach with the Recovery Star tool was a beneficial process for the service. Key workers working with patients thought that the structure of the Recovery Star tool opened up avenues for discussing topics that may otherwise have not been discussed as fully. The authors concluded that the Recovery Star tool, embedded in a care programme approach process, equips patients and staff for measuring the recovery journey.
More than words
- Author:
- FRY Suzanne
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, June 2012, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article describes the journey of ‘Ben’ who contracted measles at the age of five leaving him with a damaged brain, resulting in learning difficulties. Frustrated by not being able to communicate, Ben became disruptive and unmanageable, forcing his parents to place him in a residential care home in Hampshire. Ben was taken to a speech therapist for an assessment, where he was introduced to a programme run by Lancaster University that was using a communication aid called ‘Orac’, which plays pre-recorded messages to others. This article describes how Orac has enabled Ben to live a more fulfilling life, even enabling the use of telephones to talk to his family.
Hearing older voices
- Author:
- SOUTHGATE Jaki
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 126, January 2012, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Older Voices, is a three year project funded by Comic Relief that is working with 17 people with a learning disability over the age of 50. The project is running a series of workshops to make the older people aware of their rights to services and give them the confidence and skills to change things, such as discrimination. This article provides a brief overview of the project which is being run by Mencap Wales.
Tiered model of learning disability forensic service provision
- Authors:
- DEVAPRIAM John, ALEXANDER Regi T.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, 3(4), 2012, pp.175-185.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Traditionally, services for people with learning disabilities (LD) and forensic needs are underdeveloped. This paper aims to describe the setting up of a tiered model of LD forensic service provision in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, facilitated and driven by a core team of professionals who have the skills and expertise in this area. With no dedicated funding, this team is virtual in nature and provides support for the community and in-patient teams in the assessment and management of offenders with LD. A care pathway including a process map is included to represent a visual idea of the referral, assessment, intervention and disposal strategies across the four tiers of service delivery. The service has a unique partnership arrangement with the independent sector that allows for staff training in order to deliver quality outcomes. The virtual team can support patients with learning disabilities and forensic needs in the community and in-patient settings, both by avoiding unnecessary in-patient admissions and by improving the treatment outcomes of those discharged from in-patient settings. Further research is required to demonstrate the clinical and social outcomes for offenders with LD using the tiered model of care and care-pathway. (Edited publisher abstract)
Supporting people to a better future
- Author:
- COTTIS Tamsin
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, December 2012, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The issues around young people with learning disabilities who display sexually harmful behaviour (SHB) are complex, and studies consistently show that young people with learning disabilities who sexually abuse others are over-represented. But there services being developed to address this issue. Respond Young People’s Service recently secured funding to develop a new service – Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) for young people aged 12 to 19 who have learning disabilities and SHB. This article describes how CoSA works, and presents a discussion of the benefits it provides.
Who’s challenging who?
- Authors:
- DAVIES Rhodri, HUTCHINSON Lisa
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 103, Summer 2012, pp.9-11.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
This article describes the work of “Who’s challenging who?”, an 18-month knowledge transfer partnership between Mencap Cymru and Bangor University. It aims to improve challenging behaviour services for people with a learning disability by improving staff attitudes and increasing empathy. The work was done with Claire Bowler and Martin Banks, two people who have previously displayed challenging behaviour. Martin and Claire helped to co-author and deliver a series of pilot training sessions to social and healthcare staff across Wales. The staff gained a notable change in attitudes and more empathy towards people with challenging behaviour. Encouragingly, over 75% of people on the sessions said that they thought training in this area was a good use of their time, and the same number said that they would apply what they learned in their jobs.
A skill for the people – a service for the community – good for the environment
- Author:
- WARNER Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 103, Summer 2012, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
DRIVE is a voluntary organisation in Rhondda Cynon Taf providing supported living and day service opportunities for people with a learning disability in a social enterprise setting. Having run a horticultural project for 25 years at Pontyclun, they have recently been creative and innovative in getting funding to provide a new food composting service for local primary schools in the area. This article talks to the project manager and members of DRIVE’s Future Skills Project to explore how the food composting service is progressing, and what clients views of the service are.
Sunnyside up
- Author:
- PARTON Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, August 2012, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article discusses Sunnyside House’s My LIFE (learning independence for ever) training programme which helps residents with learning disabilities learn the skills they need to live an independent life in their own home. Based in Thurrock, Essex, My LIFE is a modular training programme that teaches life skills such as conflict management and budgeting skills. The article focuses on ‘Gavin’, and how the programme has enabled him to move into his own property, managing his own finances and building positive relationships with neighbours.