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Communicating Skills for Complex Needs

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Association for Real Change NI

Cost: ARC NI Members £65 | Non-Members £90
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This course is aimed at helping staff to support people with profound and multiple learning disabilities to communicate and express their own thoughts and ideas.

Communicating Skills for Complex Needs aims to help staff support people with profound and multiple learning disabilities to communicate and express their own thoughts and ideas. 

The course content supports NISCC Standards of Conduct and Practice: 3.1 Empowering service users and carers to communicate their views, needs and preferences, taking account of their preferred language and form of communication; and RQIA Provider Guidance 2017-18 for Domiciliary Care Agencies; Compassionate Care; There is a culture/ethos that supports the values of dignity and respect, independence, rights, equality and diversity, choice and consent of service users. Service users are listened to, valued and communicated with, in an appropriate manner.

By the end of the course learners will:

  • explore the implications of failing to understand communication and how this can result in a complex range of behaviours that challenge
  • explore language and communication difficulties: Developmental/Acquired
  • be familiar with the range of ways in which people communicate without speech
  • have an introduction to Active Support, Intensive Interaction, objects of reference and sensory referencing
  • have an introduction to augmentative and alternative communication, including PECS and basic Makaton Signs.
Sector:
  • Disability
  • Education/training

Date and Time

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Location

McSweeney Centre
Henry Place
Online Via Zoom
BT15 2AY
United Kingdom

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Contact Details

training.ni@arcuk.org.uk
028 9038 0962

More Information

All ARC NI member bookings must be made online via the Training Section and Training Portal on the new ARC NI website. Your organisation’s nominated training coordinator will have access to the Training Portal to book training for staff. Please note, we will not accept booking forms from members.

We will continue to accept booking forms from our Health & Social Care Trust members (Belfast, Western, South-Eastern, and Northern). These can be submitted as usual to this email address. We aim to set up online booking for Trust members soon. To request a booking form, please contact me.

Non-Members

All non-member bookings must be made online via the Training Section and Training Portal on the new ARC NI website. You will check out as a guest and be required to make immediate payment.

https://arcni.org.uk/training/

The link below will show you a step-by-step to booking online.

https://youtu.be/PIbGKhIapts