Community Services: Disability

Communicating Effectively with People with a Learning Disability (2011) If you are working within the learning disability sector and studying for the QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care, you will find this book invaluable in helping you to achieve the unit on Communicating effectively. It explain how communication affects all aspects of your work, including relationships, and provides guidance on how to overcome barriers to good communication.

Supporting Positive Behaviour in Intellectual Disabilities and Autism (2019) This highly practical book is an accessible and grounded handbook for addressing challenging behaviour in children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD), including autism. It recognises that challenging behaviour does not appear out of nowhere and is meaningful for the person exhibiting it. Behaviour can be communicative and an important signifier of underlying sensory or environmental issues. Focusing on a person-centred approach throughout, the book has advice and strategies for working with the client's families, support staff and professionals.

People with disability (2017) One in five Australians have a disability, however many encounter a range of barriers, stereotypes and negative attitudes. They are more likely to experience poverty, live in poor quality or insecure housing, suffer from mental illness and have low levels of education. They are often socially isolated, with fewer opportunities to take part in community life.

Caring in the Community : A Training Manual for Home and Community Carer (2011) Caring in the Community provides a solid, practical introduction to the role and responsibilities for workers caring for clients in their own homes.

The disability support worker (2020) The third edition of The Disability Support Worker will differentiate from the competition as a comprehensive standalone Certificate IV resource. It will cover all 11 core units and 5 of the most highly subscribed electives. The level of the content will be repositioned through reflective pedagogy to require students to think about their own practice and consider themselves as professionals in the field, preparing them for their more senior and supervisory roles in the workplace. The link to practice will be further emphasised by including the new Industry Insights feature – a series of interviews with practitioners.

Individual support in Australia : ageing, disability, home and community care (2016) This text is a valuable resource for individual support workers in the aged care, disability and home and community support sectors. it also provides a useful source of information for other workers in these sectors, careers and volunteer workers.

Understanding and Responding to Behaviour That Challenges in Intellectual Disabilities (2019) Children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities and/or autism who display behaviour that challenges those around them continue to be particularly vulnerable tobeing misunderstoodand inappropriately supported, despite best practice policy.