Learning Disabilities P1
- Created by: Grace.2006
- Created on: 08-12-22 14:51
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- Learning Disabilities
- Age range
- Diagnosis's for learning disabilities are often done at an early age
- Learning disabilities can affect people throughout their lives
- Some diagnosis's aren't made until teenage years or even adulthood
- Learning disabilities can be different for everyone
- There are a range of learning disabilities
- Learning disabilities can be caused by a rang of things in early childhood or during the mothers pregnancy
- There are some health conditions that may mean there is a higher risk of having learning disabilities
- Treatments
- There is no cue for learning disabilities
- Early intervention can lessen the effects
- If left untreated it can cause low self-esteem, mental health, and behavioural problems
- Special education services
- Free special education support to children with disabilities
- Children to be taught in the most appropriate environment for them
- Ensures that the teachers should meet the child's needs and skills
- Free special education support to children with disabilities
- Therapies
- Mental health therapies
- Play therapies
- Interventions
- These are to prevent the problems in their emotional and social development
- Speech and language therapies may be beneficial
- Plans should be put into place from birth to 25 years old
- Needs assessments can address the support or therapies someone may need
- Health and social care staff involved in care
- Learning disabilities nurses
- Specialist nurses
- GPs
- Support workers
- Domiciliary care assistants
- Social worker
- Advocate
- Behavioural counsellors/ therapists
- Charities
- Mind
- Midwife - scans and monitoring the mothers health during pregnancy
- Learning disabilities nurses
- Age range
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