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Relationships matter to families with disabled children

 

Contact a Family has launched a new project to help strengthen relationships of families with disabled children.

 

The Family Life project will help families and professionals working with them to better understand the importance of strong relationships and how to look after them.

Family Life will provide support to a range of practitioners via children's centres to recognise and respond to the unique emotional and practical stresses faced by families with disabled children which can too often negatively impact on family relationships.

Contact a Family will also be working with individual parents and parent led groups to highlight the importance of seeking relationships support and advice to promote strong and resilient families.

This support will include:

  1. A relationships enquiries and information service for professionals
  2. Relationship information booklets
  3. Training and workshops for professionals and parent led groups.

The project will help signpost people to sources of support and will draw on the expertise of organisations such as Relate.

For more information telephone 020 7608 8716 or visit http://www.cafamily.org.uk/index.php?section=927 or

http://www.cafamily.org.uk/professionals/familylife.html 

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BORDERS ASPERGER & AUTISM GROUP SUPPORT training workshop

With Stella MacDonald talking about Asperger Syndrome Childhood to Adulthood

 

This Training Workshop will explore the world of Asperger syndrome through the years from Childhood to Adulthood....and all in-between - the effects on the person with the condition, how they per see the society they live in, and how we can help improve their lives and remove some of the confusions and obstacles

 

All parents and professionals will learn something from this workshop. Stella has a tremendous amount of experience, knowledge and understanding of living with Asperger's -  the dangers a person can encounter, the confusion about social rules, the misunderstandings of correct protocol, the childhood horrors, the adolescent turmoil's and the adult inaccuracies!

 

Currently employed as Fife Autism Co-ordinator, Stella has many roles across Scotland.

 

Cairndale Hotel, Dumfries

Wednesday 31st August 2011

1pm until 4pm

£40 (£25 BAAGS members)

 

For booking/further information please contact;

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Tel: 01896 668961

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Publication: Positive behaviour support - A brief guide for schools

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Mark Wakefield and Sharon Paley

Teaching takes place in the context of relationships, most importantly those between staff and pupils, but also staff to staff and pupil to pupil. Behaviour is used within the context of these relationships to communicate all manner of things such as: happiness, pain, boredom, discomfort, trepidation, joy and fear.

Our ability to understand this communication is part of the relationships we build with the individual and is paramount to our success as teachers.

This booklet offers a quick guide to the principles of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) for teachers, classroom assistants and others working within a school environment. It is hoped that it provides an easy to read guide that will encourage you to find out more about PBS and how it can be implemented within a whole school setting. It is likely that the information may also be useful to people working in other settings with children and young people.

All BILD books can be ordered online at: www.bild.org.uk

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TEN TOP TIPS – Information sheet from CBF

For families / carers on ensuring good support and services for adults with severe learning disabilities whose behaviour is described as challenging

 

Professor Luke Clements, Cardiff Law School, Director of the Centre for Health and Social Care Law, Cardiff Law School, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX

www.law.cf.ac.uk/contactsandpeople/ClementsLJ

 

This information sheet has been written for family carers whose relative has severe learning disabilities and behaviour described as challenging.

 

Is your relative aged 18 years or older?                                      
Does your relative receive community care services?             

 

If the answer is yes this information sheet is for you. Outlined on the Challenging Behaviour Foundation Website are ten top tips to help you get the right support for your family member.

 

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