People with disabilities

Websites:

• Association for all Speech Impaired Children (AFASIC) helps children and young people with speech and language impairments and their families.
• Contact a Family provides advice, information and support to the parents of all disabled children
• Disability North aims to promote inclusion, independence and choice for disabled people.
• Family Fund provides timely grants to families with severely disabled children, based on families' views and needs.
• I can works to support children with a communication disability.
• MENCAP for people with a learning disability and their families.
• Percy Hedley Foundation provides specialist services for disabled people in the North East of England.
• Scope supports people with cerebral palsy
• Sibs is for people who grow up with a brother or sister with special needs, disability, chronic illness.
• Transition Information Network aim to improve the experience of disabled young people's transition to adulthood.
• Whizz-Kidz gives disabled children the chance to lead a more independent life.

Related Information

Equal access? A practical guide for the NHS (PDF)

This Equal access? A practical guide for the NHS: creating a Single Equality Scheme that includes improving access for people with learning disabilities is a guide to support the NHS to include people with learning disabilities in their equality schemes, with practical examples of reasonable adjustments to achieve equality of access.

(Department of Health, 24 November 2009)

Strategic plan 2010-2015: position statement and action plan for learning disability

This five year plan outlines aims to drive up standards on behalf of people with learning disabilities. This will involve building intelligence networks within services, representative groups and other relevant organisations to feed into the regulator's picture of services and direct where inspections should take place.

(The Care Quality Commission, 15 December 2009)

Training for people with learning disabilities (MS Word)

Bespoke courses and interventions are available to support the End of Life Care (EOLC) of people with learning disabilities. From diagnosis through treatment or into bereavement the training is based on both the most up to date research and significant hands on experience of caring directly for people with learning disabilities who are ill or bereaved, their families and the professionals who care for them.

Training courses and services include:

• Enhanced communication with people who have learning disabilities
• Introduction to the EOLC needs of people with learning disabilities
• EOLC decision making with people who have learning disabilities
• Bereavement care of people with learning disabilities
• Training the trainers in bereavement and EOLC
• Bespoke training and consultancy services
• Individual training needs

(Enfold Training and Consultancy Service, April 2009)

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