Adults with Disabilities

Our Adults with Disabilities programme is for providers of learning disability registered services and includes a series of information sessions aimed at care & support staff to be better equipped to manage some of the complex issues they face on a day-to-day basis.

The Quality Innovation Adults with Disabilities programme has included;

• Age Well Programme
• Dementia in Adults with a Learning Disability and or Autism
• Positive Behaviour Support at an informed level
• Functional Behaviour Assessment
• Positive Behaviour Support at an Equipped Level
• Introduction to Inclusive Communication
• Epilepsy & Buccal Midazolam Awareness
• Sepsis Awareness
• Dysphagia Awareness
• Aspirational Pneumonia Prevention Event
• MCA & DOLS
• Defensive Documentation
• Acquired Brain injury awareness (Please remove)
• Motor Neurone Disease awareness (Please remove)
• Parkinson’s Awareness
• Autism Reality Experience
• Dementia Reality Experience
• Diabetes awareness sessions
• Intellectual disabilities and mental health awareness sessions
• Oral Healthcare
• Nutrition and Hydration
• Makaton
• PICA, ARFID & Polydipsia
• Peg/Enteral feeding
• Acquired brain injury & Associated Neurological Conditions (Motor Neurone Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy)
• Learning Disability Associated Conditions (Prader Willi, Fragile X, Turner Syndrome, Down Syndrome, Angelman Syndrome)
• End of Life with Essex Hospices
• This Is Me: Making Memories
• Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking across the Care Sector with Essex Police
• Oliver McGowan Tier 2
• Mental Health First Aid

Blood Test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyp_myNGWhw  

Dentist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clmkwuGW6jE 

Ambulance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qV2GajM12U 

Dates, venues and booking details are uploaded on the Events page as they become available.

If you are a learning disability registered provider in the Essex County Council Local Authority area and are interested in any of the above sessions please email quality.innovation@essex.gov.uk