Cerebra 1,000 Families Study - UK

cereb80 Mothers, fathers, caregivers of children with a learning disability, this is your opportunity to inform research and policy for coming decades!

The Cerebra Family Research Group at the University of Warwick in collaboration with the research charity Cerebra, wishes to explore the experiences of family members who live with a child with a learning disability aged 4 to 11 years.

We are really keen to survey at least one person in the family (especially, a mother and a father) to explore whether family members have similar or different experiences and capture the experience of the whole family.

We want to make this the largest study ever of families of children with learning disability in the UK. The 1,000 families study will further our understanding of what it is like to raise a child with a learning disability and will help shape future information and support for families and children – so get involved!

To find out more about the study and to complete the online survey please visit our website. If you prefer you can request a paper copy of the survey.

For enquires please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Intensive Interaction Institute: Good Practice Course

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This is a six month mentored course (with 3 tutored study days) to develop good Intensive Interaction practices using a combination of tutoring methods, including: video evaluation of own and others’ practice, expert presentations, facilitated discussions and other structured learning activities. This course can also be delivered in service.

Course Aims: All of the course processes and materials are designed to fulfil the following aims, that by the end of the course, the trainee:

will be able to fully understand the principles of Intensive Interaction

will be a good practitioner in the techniques of doing Intensive Interaction

will be able to usefully reflect on their own and others’ Intensive Interaction practices

Course Fee: The course fee is £600. This fee includes access to experienced and qualified Intensive Interaction tutors throughout the 6 months’ duration of the course, all necessary teaching materials, and refreshments and lunch during the 3 tutored course study days.

Course assessment: continuous assessment by experienced course tutors.

Dates: Next course starts in October 2016.

To register your interest in attending, or organising for others to attend this course, please contact:

Sarah Forde (Intensive Interaction Institute) on 01920 822027 or email Sarah at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Intensive Interaction for People with PMLD - UK – date and venue to be announced

Inten80 This course will enable you to develop practical techniques to communicate and connect with people who have Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD).

Duration: One day 10.00am - 3.30pm

Course content:

· The Fundamentals of Communication - Why is Intensive Interaction so important?

· How to do Intensive Interaction

· Use of touch and issues of developmental pertinence

· Video examples showing children and adults with PMLD develop awareness of others and themselves, initiate interactions, engage in turn-taking, develop use of vocalisations and facial expressions (and much more!)

· Recognising outcomes and how to record keep

· How to get started

A DVD and comprehensive handout is included

Who should go:

This course is for anyone who is involved in the care, support or education of children or adults with PMLD

· Support staff

· Parent and family carers

· Speech and Language Therapists

· Teachers and Teaching Assistants

· Service Managers

· Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists

· Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists

· Learning Disability Nurses

The course will be delivered by Amandine Mourière MA and Dr Julie Calveley (RNLD) who are Associates of the Intensive Interaction Institute

This course can also be delivered in service.

For more information and booking please contact Sarah Forde: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The use of Intensive Interaction is endorsed by the Department of Health (Mansell 2010, Raising Our Sights; DoH 2009, Valuing People Now)

Intensive Interaction for people with Autism – UK – await date and venue

Inten80 Intensive Interaction is for people who are at the earliest stages of communication development. This one-day course will enable you to develop practical techniques to communicate and connect with people with Autism.

Duration: One day 10.00am - 3.30pm

Course content:

· The Fundamentals of Communication - Why is Intensive Interaction so important?

· How to do Intensive Interaction

· Videos showing children and adults with Autism making progress developing social and emotional connections, enjoying interactions, learning to communicate using vocalisations, facial expressions and gesture, becoming relaxed making eye contact (and much more!)

· Use of touch and issues of developmental pertinence

· Recognising outcomes and how to record keep

· How to get started

Who should attend:

This course is for anyone who is involved in the care, support or education of children or adults with Autism

· Support staff

· Parents and family

· Speech and Language Therapists

· Teachers and Teaching Assistants

· Service managers

· Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists

· Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists

· Learning Disability Nurses

A DVD and comprehensive handout are included

The course will be delivered by Amandine Mourière MA and Dr Julie Calveley (RNLD) who are Associates of the Intensive Interaction Institute.

This course can also be delivered in service.

For more information and booking please contact Sarah Forde: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

"Previously I felt that there was an invisible barrier, an emotional ‘gap’ between us. Intensive Interaction has begun to change that. Now we have started to build this foundation I feel so much more positive about his future."

(Parent of a 7-year-old with Autism)

"I feel Intensive Interaction has been a major contributing factor in my son's progress. His transformation in the last 6 months has been staggering."

(Parent of a 3-year-old with Autism).

Contact: Sarah Forde This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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