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Mental Ill Health and Hope for People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities
Learn to spot the mental ill health that gets put down to a disability, and build small daily moments that help protect against it.
- 52 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Recognise diagnostic overshadowing and ask what a learner's distress is telling you
- Understand why people with PMLD are at much higher risk of mental ill health
- Notice long-standing low mood that no longer looks like a change
- Build small moments of anticipation into everyday sensory sessions
- Use the core and essential service standards to check your setting's practice
About this course
Signs of mental ill health in people with profound and multiple learning disabilities are easily missed. A young man bangs his head against a wall and a member of staff says he's autistic, he does that, as if that were the reason. Low mood that has lasted for years stops looking like a change, so nobody questions it.
You'll understand why this group is so much more vulnerable, and what you can do about it in an ordinary day. The ideas are simple and cost nothing. Rather than just handing someone their favourite sparkly fabric, bring it to them in its box and open it within arm's reach, so there's something to look forward to as well as enjoy.
The presenter is a former special school teacher who spent six months reading all the research on this group, so you don't have to.
- For early career teachers, mental health leads and 5 other roles. Early years, primary, secondary and special.
Recording
Open in order
- 4 min
Introduction
- 5 min
The Sensory Project
- 4 min
Mindfulness
- 4 min
Statistics
- 6 min
PLMD Statistics
- 5 min
Diagnostic Overshadowing
- 4 min
Unchallenged Mental Health
- 4 min
A Child’s Experience
- 5 min
Reflections
- 11 min
Building Practice into Day to Day
- 5 min
Summary