Intervention/Management

Question 1

Social Model of Disability

Answer 1

says that people are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference.
The social model helps us recognise barriers that make life harder for disabled people. Removing these barriers creates equality and offers disabled people more independence, choice and control.

Question 2

Means, Reasons and Opportunities Model (Money 02)

Answer 2

Intervention needs to:
Promote communication skills for independence, choice, inclusion and rights
Ensuring that the client has a way of expressing themselves and understanding.
Focusing on the autonomy of the individual with learning disabilities to make choices, express likes and dislikes etc.
Ensuring that the individual has access to communicative partners

Question 3

AAC

Answer 3

Low tech and High Tech
Symbol systems - makaton, sign, PECS, - empowering the client to make decisions.
Following total communication approach.

Question 4

Training others

Answer 4

Carers - More opportunities for their client to comun, communication strateiges to encourage positive commun and increase knowledge and communication.

Question 5

Communication Passports

Answer 5

Share client centred information, provides an interpretation of their communication behaviours.

Question 6

Environmental supports

Answer 6

Barriers to client, providing supports within the environment

Question 7

Talking Mats

Answer 7

Getting to know someone – their likes or dislikes or what they are managing or not managing
Ensuring the individual’s views about what matters most to them are at the centre of the planning process
Discharge planning and management, ensuring that the client is involved and that staff and listen to their views
Comparing people’s views over time. This can be particularly useful at the beginning and end of therapy input
Finding out a patient’s priorities about goals they want to work on