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Skills for support: personal assistants and people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Val, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 38(1), March 2010, pp.59-67.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
For people with learning disabilities to have control over their lives, the quality of their support staff matters. This paper reports on an inclusive research study, which used video analysis to study the communication skills of personal assistants (PAs) who worked with people with learning disabilities. The findings reveal some of the fine detail in the strategies these PAs used, to show respect, support choices, and give advice. They were able to step back, to listen and observe the person with learning disabilities, and to use good, open body language. They also gave people time, built up a close relationship based on shared interests and activities, and they talked with people in a friendly, adult way. It is difficult to support people to manage their lives, and team work is important. People with learning disabilities also have to play their role in the relationship. This research produced training materials that will help people with learning disabilities to train and support their own PAs.
Calling the shots
- Author:
- BALDWIN Michele
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 9(5), July 2009, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
A three year project run by the Association for Real Change (ARC) has trained 12 people with learning disabilities to become trainers. The article summarises the training and learning points from the project.
Learning the way to journey's end
- Author:
- TAYLOR Amy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.2.09, 2009, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on an initiative in the London Borough of Merton that is training people with learning disabilities to use public transport, thus allowing them to travel independently on specific journeys.
We hope this is just the beginning
- Author:
- KIRKPATRICK Karyn
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, November 2008, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
KeyRing and Skillnet Group have developed an pilot initiative to raise awareness among prison staff to help to work more effectively with people with learning disabilities. This article discusses the pilot and plans for the future.
Turning the tables
- Author:
- HUNT Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.10.08, 2008, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Connect Works training programme has been developed by people with learning disabilities to train the personal assistants they might later recruit. Reports on the potential of the scheme.
Linking training and employment in a creative environment
- Author:
- REMFRY Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 21(3), 2008, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author reports on Poetry in Wood, an art and woodwork, training and employment project for adults with learning disabilities based in Spitalfields, London.
Carving out a future
- Author:
- LODGE Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 21(3), 2008, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Job carving involves breaking a job down into small tasks or components. Instead of employing on person to do all the tasks, a number of people are employed to do the parts they are skilled or able to do. The author, from Link Employment Services, discusses their experience of using job carving to recruit people with learning disabilities.
Enhancing the emotion recognition skills of individuals with learning disabilities: a review of the literature
- Authors:
- WOOD Pamela Margaret, KROESE Biza Stenfert
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 20(6), November 2007, pp.576-579.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
It has been repeatedly demonstrated that individuals with intellectual disabilities experience significant difficulties in recognizing facial expressions of emotion. The aim of this review was to address whether such skills can be enhanced amongst individuals with intellectual disabilities. The PsychInfo database on Dialog DataStar (1972–2006) was searched for all published journal articles investigating whether emotion recognition skills can be enhanced amongst individuals with intellectual disabilities. Four relevant articles were identified. Training in emotion recognition skills resulted in improvements in all four studies, with one study maintaining improvements at 8-month follow-up. The four published studies identified that emotion recognition skills can be enhanced and maintained over time. Despite claims in the literature that training in emotion recognition skills will enhance the social skills of individuals with intellectual disabilities, none of the studies considered the impact of training upon everyday functioning, leaving the ultimate efficacy of such training open to question.
'What it is like to be us'
- Author:
- CALLAGHAN David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.11.07, 2007, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A group of people with learning disabilities is providing training to professionals about their needs. The author looks at the work of Trainers for Change (T4C) which recently picked up a Skills for Care accolade for its innovative work.
Partnerships for training: an easy access pack for developing equal training partnerships with people with a learning disability
- Authors:
- JONES Jane, ROBERTSON Christopher
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 45p., DVD
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
This easy access pack is for experienced trainers and people with learning disabilities who want to work together to do training as equal partners. The pack is made up of a workbook and a DVD-ROM. The workbook includes sections on developing an equal partnership, planning and practising training sessions, and reviewing how actual training went. The DVD-ROM contains video clips illustrating good and bad practice and has been designed to make it easy to use.