Date post: | 24-May-2015 |
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Learning disability awareness
workshop
Welcome
Today’s learning disability awareness
trainers are…
Kathy Benfield
Ciara Evans
Ground rules
• Confidentiality
• Punctuality
• Participation
• Mobiles off!
Session plan
• Information about learning disability.
• Attitudes towards people with a learning disability.
• Communication and learning disability.
• People with a learning disability as volunteers.
• Course reflection and evaluation.
About learning disability
‘What is a learning disability?’
The medical model of disability
The disabled person is seen as the problem
The social model of disability
• The problem is the disabling world
Attitudes towards learning disability over the last 60
years
The person needs help and carers
The disabled person is
seen as the problem
The person needs to adapt and learn to fit
in
The person should be
pitied
The person should be feared
Professionals decide what is best for the
person
The person is sick
The medical model
Attitudes towards learning disability over the last 60
years
Segregated education
The problem is the
disabling world
Badly designed buildings
Prejudiced attitudes
Inaccessible information
Inaccessible transport
Poverty and low incomes
Poor job prospects
The social model
Communication
• Conform• Accompanies• Amend• Compiled• Financially viable • Subsequent• Substantial• Unique• Participate• Influential• Categorise• Strategic priority
• Fit in• Goes with• Change• Put together• Possible with the money we
have• Next• Large• Only one of its kind• Take part• Having a big effect• Put into order or groups• Important goal in our plan
Easy Read
Barriers to equalityLaura's story
Barriers to equalityLaura strikes back
Making equality happen
• What can you do?
• If someone with a learning disability wants to volunteer you can support them by following some of the steps we have talked about
• Remember everyone has the right to be an equal in society.
Commitment to supporting people with a learning disability to volunteer
• List three things that your teams can do.
• List three things that you as an individual can do.
Any questions?
?
Thank you for coming
Thanks to Photosymbols and Clear Consultants for the images used in this presentation.