The following has been taken from the ECAPSS newsletter.
Communicate, Participate, Enjoy!
Solutions to Inclusion
Conference – 21st & 22nd March, 2011
This conference will focus on how to support children and adults with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities to participate and be included in everyday activities. The programme will offer a wide range of practical presentations in the areas of communication, behaviours of concern, sensory-focused practice and inclusion.
Programme and registration details will be available on the Scope website soon.
I’ll cross post here as soon as I hear more
Organisations that might be relevant to supporters of people with PIMD
Some of these organisations I know a fair bit about, some not at all. They are professional organisations that might be of relevance to people with PIMD. Some have conferences, newsletters, websites. Just thought I’d share some I know of.
Sheri
PANDDA – The Professional Association of Nurses in Developmental Disability Areas
AGOSCI – Formerly Australian Group on Severe Communication Impairment
ASSID – Australasian Society for the Study of Intellectual Disability
Spot On DD – Speech Pathologists, Physiotherapists, and Occupational Therapists who work in the area of Developmental Disability
ARATA – Australian Rehabilitation & Assistive Technology Association
Please share others you know of…
Raising Our Sights – video
After several months of waiting, the UK Raising Our Sights video that accompanies the report is now on the Department of Health website. It has been segmented into parts, for download size purposes I assume. I recommend watching all parts – but if you have to choose, I would recommend starting with Victoria and Mitchell’s video (Alex and Simon perhaps are more in-line with having severe ID rather than profound – but nevertheless it is a good video).
I think this an important example of supporting adults with PIMD and it may be helpful to both services and families supporting people with PIMD.
Click here for both the report and the videos.
Age-appropriateness: Enabler or barrier to a good life for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities?
I’ve just published a new article on the problems with age-appropriateness concept. Hope it gets people talking about the pros and cons, rather than just accepting that because policy says it has to be it has to be.
Forster, S. (2010). Age-appropriateness: Enabler or barrier to a good life for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities? Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 35, 129-131. doi: 10.3109/13668251003694606