COVID 19 – Learning Disability-Easy Read-Self Isolation covid-19.pdf
The Community Learning Disability Services and teams are divided into three services. Click on links at top of page or below
Adult Community Learning Disability Team
Children’s Community Learning Disability Nursing Service
LD- Anticipatory Care Planning resources:
ReSPECT Clinicians Guide.pdf and ReSPECT Form.pdf
LD Resources – Assessing Distress and Pain
My pain profile helps you identify the signs that someone is in pain:
The Disability Distress Assessment Tool (DisDAT) is based on the idea that each person has their own ‘vocabulary’ of distress signs and behaviours: https://www.wamhinpc.org.uk/sites/default/files/Dis%20DAT_Tool.pdf
Non-Communicating Adults Pain Checklist (NCAPC) is an 18-item checklist that helps you assess chronic pain in non-communicating adults:
Wong and Baker’s FACES Pain Rating Scale uses pictures of faces to help people communicate pain intensity from ‘no hurt’ to ‘hurts worst’:
