Learning Disability Today
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Contacts
Alison Bloomer
Managing Editor
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Future events
Refocusing health and wellbeing for people with a learning disability: the action we need
Date: Thursday 12th September 2024
Venue: Kingston University London, KT2 7LB
Time: 10.00 – 16.00
Learning Disability Today and Kingston University are delighted to host a one-day conference looking at how we can positively influence change to improve the lives of people with a learning disability, their families and those who support them.
Past events
How to manage sleep problems effectively in people with neurodevelopmental conditions
Recorded on: Thursday 20th March 2025 and hosted by Caroline Richards and Leeann Stevenson. This webinar discusses sleeping problems that are highly prevalent in those with neurodevelopmental conditions and poor sleep can affect every aspect of a person’s functioning. It can also have a negative consequence for the whole family.
How to support a person with FASD
Recorded on: Wednesday 26th February 2025 and hosted by Brian Roberts and Georgia Roberts. This webinar discusses innovative approaches to help support those living with FASD.
How to Make an Effective Education Health and Care Plan
Recorded on: Wednesday 22nd January 2025 and hosted by Ekaterina Harrison and Julie Pender. In this webinar, Ekaterina Harrison and Julie Pender will share their knowledge about EHCPs to help support the rights of children and young people who have SEND so that education is made more accessible and inclusive for all. This webinar is for parents and carers, professionals working in education and social care staff.
Jumping barriers, riding challenges…Getting the transition to adult social care right
Recorded on 13th November 2024 and hosted by Richard Mears, Regional Managing Director at Dimensions. In this webinar, we discuss the challenges faced by young adults transitioning from children’s services to adult support. You will learn about an innovative approach to help young people with learning disabilities and young autistic adults achieve lifelong independence and reduce behaviours of distress.
Love, Attachment and Intellectual Disability: Meeting Emotional Needs and Developmental Trauma
Recorded on 5th June 2024, presented by Allan Skelly. In this webinar, Allan Skelly will explore the importance of our basic needs for love, safety and care from an early attachment figure. When these elementary emotional needs are not met, it can result in developmental trauma.
Mental health support for people with learning disabilities
Recorded on 27th March 2024, presented by Professor Eddie Chaplin. This webinar will review prevention, assessment, and management of mental health problems in people with learning disabilities.
Making space for autism in the classroom: how to provide a safe emotional environment for education
Recorded on 21 November 2023, presented by Sharon McCarthy, Micaela Connolly and Caolán McCarthy. This webinar explores how to provide a safe emotional environment for education — and how educators can provide support for autistic students.
Using cognitive behavioural therapy for people with learning disabilities
Recorded on 11 October 2023, presented by Professor Angela Hassiotis. Learn how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) can be adapted to help people with a learning disability to manage problems by changing the way they think and behave.
Autistic social identity and how to safely foster authenticity
Recorded on 3 October 2023, presented by Dr Amy Pearson and Kieran Rose. This webinar explores autistic masking and the impact of stigma and trauma on autistic people.
Neurodiversity in the workplace: the challenges and benefits
Recorded on 10 November 2022, presented by Dr Damian E. M. Milton. The webinar considers the challenges that neurodivergent thinkers face in the workplace and the benefits of hiring neurodiverse individuals.
Making a difference to the lives of people with severe learning disabilities
Recorded on 5 October 2022. Dawn Rooke shares her lived experience as a mum to two adults with a learning disability and autism. Erren Wheatland and Samir from Achieve together talk about how people with severe learning disabilities can be supported by society.
Shifting the balance of power: putting people back in control
Recorded on 16 June 2022, presented by Jim Blair, Scott Watkin and Vicki Ainsworth. This webinar looks at how people with lived experience of learning disability who are at the heart of government policy can help drive future change.