Consultant Occupational Therapist. Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner. Clinical supervisor/mentor. Children and adults with learning disabilities.
Absolutely agree with this post on the community of practice group. Thank you @asi_wise for being amazing! Your support helps me to develop my practice and help the wonderful people I work with achieve their goals everyday! @kathsmithot@katie_crowfoot and the rest!
Day 5 of #LearningDisabilityWeek2024 Today it is the turn of our communications lead Rachel to share something she enjoys that may not be viewed as age appropriate. @theRCOT
Day 3 #learningdisabilityweek - our events co-ordinator Becky is sharing something that she likes that may not be classed as βage-appropriateβ. People with learning disabilities are sometimes prevented from having interests that may not be classed as βage-appropriateβ. @theRCOT
Day 2 #learningdisabilityweek, we are considering the theme of βage-appropriatenessβ and how this can be used to limit access to #occupations for people with a #learningdisability Our secretary Justine shares one of her favoured activities @theRCOT What activities do you like?
It's Learning Disabilities Awareness week and @asi_wise are hosting a free awareness session during Coffee and Chat Community of Practice on Wednesday 7.30pm (BST) you can sign up for free at sensoryproject.org/shop
This week is learning disability week. We will be taking this opportunity to think about βage-appropriatenessβ our committee will be sharing something about themselves that may not be considered age appropriate! Starting with our chairperson Georgia. @theRCOT
It's #LearningDisabilityWeek! π
We want people with a learning disability to be seen.
Research shows that people with a learning disability have had enough of being ignored, mistreated, patronised - and, sometimes, even locked away.
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ALT A purple graphic with four oatmeal coloured boxes on top. In each box there's a statistic relating to people with a learning disability. They read, twice as many people with a learning disability die avoidably than in the general population. One in five people in the UK have seen someone mocked because of their learning disability. 28% of people in the UK still believe that learning disability relates to a mental health problem. Disabled households need Β£975 a month to have the same standard of living as non-disabled households.
3 of our senior therapists from @seashelltrust presented at National conferences yesterday! @cgoslingcomms and Verity Langlands at the Ewing Foundation conference and myself at the @theRCOT conference #RCOT2024 Proud to be part of #teamseashell
Looking forward to the @theRCOT conference tomorrow and sharing my presentation about outcome measures. If you are joining the conference, Iβm first up, just after the opening plenary, feel free to virtually join me! @seashelltrust
Join us at 6.30pm for our FREE Webinar about Sensory Integration and Neurodiversity @home, school & work as part of Mental Health Awareness Week 2024. Book here sensoryproject.org/courses/mβ¦
We did the #ASI sensory ladders training as an #OT team last week @seashelltrust. A refresher for some and new learning for others. Promoted lots of discussion and the team left with lots of ideas for practice. Thank you @asi_wise
We are holding a FREE Introduction to Sleep session for families of young people with SEND, thanks to our supporters @SlaterGordon
The workshop is on #WorldSleepDay, Friday 15th March from 10am-12noon on Zoom.
Contact familyservices.webinar@seashelltrust.org.uk to book.