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
3rd 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.
3rd 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)