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Learning Disability Services

Learning Disability Services

COVID 19-     Learning Disability-Easy Read-Self Isolation covid-19.pdf

The Community Learning Disability Services and teams are divided into three services CiIck on links at top of page or below

Adult Community Learning Disability Team
Learning Disability Weight Management Service
Children’s Community Learning Disability Nursing Service

LD- Anticipatory Care Planning resources:   

 LD-ACP Guidance (HIS).pdf

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:

www.dyingmatters.doc.pdf

 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:

https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wordpressua.uark.edu/dist/9/300/files/2017/04/Non-Communicating-Adult-Pain-Checklist.pdf

 Wong and Baker’s FACES Pain Rating Scale uses pictures of faces to help people communicate pain intensity from ‘no hurt’ to ‘hurts worst’:

https://wongbakerfaces.org/instructions-use/