Understanding intellectual disability and healthcare Flashcards
How can you recognise intellectual disability in a person?
Social skills - maintaining relationships, accepting responsibility, ability to follow informal rules for social interactions
Practical skills - may not be able to live independently
Communication challenges - understanding, retaining information
Masking
Suggestibility and acquiescing - agreeing w/ everything
Did they attend a special school? Do they have a social worker? Who do they live with?
How do you determine if someone has an intellectual disability?
3 factors:
- Impairment in cognitive function: IQ<70
- Impairment in adaptive functioning: how they cope with everyday life
- Occurs during childhood development (if >18, due to TBI)
What are the barriers to healthcare for people with an ID?
H - Hidden disability
E - Equality, discrimination
A - Access barriers
R - Recognising when unwell
D - Diagnostic overshadowing (making everything related to ID)
Reasonable adjustments for someone with an ID
V - Visuals (booklets, reading ability, communication passport?)
A - Amount of info (give in stages, only what’s necessary)
L - Language (medical words, knowledge of body)
E - Environment + experiences (lack of privacy in a hospital)
T - Time to answer questions + longer consultation (tell me what you understand vs do you understand)
S - Speech (slow pace)
