Anglia Ruskin University Faculty of Health Social Care & Education, in partnership with Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will be holding a number of workshops to improve services for people with learning disabilities.

The workshops aim to enhance your understanding of learning disability and the associated difficulties and challenges they face.

These are practical workshops which are designed to help you enhance your knowledge and skills in supporting, recognising and responding to people with a range of complex or borderline learning disabilities. including communication difficulties. The workshops will adopt a scenario approach to accommodate the context of care.

Workshop participants will exit the workshops with a range of communication principles which can be applied to a range of health and social care settings. The workshops will also aim to generate discussion and thoughts around further exploration around meeting the needs of people with learning disabilities.

Issues to be covered include:

• Defining Learning Disability, causes and prevalence
• Health needs associated with LD: identifying and common medical and mental health issues and also lifestyle issues e.g. GORD, Dysphagia, Obesity, exercise.
• What barriers are there to LD seeking and receiving healthcare?
• Diagnostic Overshadowing
• Health education and promoting better health- annual health checks
• Easy read information
• Consent
• Health Access Cards/passports
• Recognising and supporting people who present with a borderline learning Disability
• Communication difficulties - the use and development of alternative forms of communication including:-
• An understanding of body language and communication
• The barriers to effective communication
• Alternative methods of communication

Entry Requirements

The workshops have been organised on behalf of Southend University Hospital: NHS Foundation Trust and will be particularly valuable to staff employed to support people with a learning disability or where contact with people with a learning disability is likely to take place.

At present we have no dates for this module. However, you can register your interest by emailing healthcontractsteam@anglia.ac.uk

Teaching days and times are for guidance only and are subject to change.

Michael Flack
Tel 0845 196 4916
Email michael.flack@anglia.ac.uk

Hannah Pollard
Tel 0845 196 4610
Email hannah.pollard@anglia.ac.uk