Places are available on the AS Webinar Learning Disability Awareness via zoom with Social Care Consultants as follows:

Please book your places via Trent self-service or email pwbotu(at)powys.gov.uk

3^rd September 2.00pm – 3.30pm

Content

• What is a learning disability?
• Degrees of learning disability
• Causes
• How learning disability affects the processing of information
• Learning disability and
  • cerebral palsy
  • Downs Syndrome
  • Fragile X Syndrome
  • Global Development Delay
  • Epilepsy
  • Mental health 
  • Autism

Challenging Behaviour and Autistic Spectrum Disorder Virtual Training

Places are also available on the AS Webinar – Challenging Behaviour & ASD training via zoom with Social Care Consultants as follows:

Please book your places via email pwbotu(at)powys.gov.uk when you have booked your place you will receive an email with joining instructions / link nearer the time.

3^rd September 9.30am – 12.30pm

This event covers:

• Types of behaviour

• Smearing
• Pica (eating or mouthing non-edible items)
• Physical challenging behaviour such as biting, spitting, hitting and hair pulling
• self injurious behaviour

• Causes
• Support strategies

• Relaxation
• Rewards and motivators
• Communication
• Consistent approaches
• ABC recording
• behaviour diaries

This would be a half day course (3hrs)