Specialist Learning Disability Training Events

Advance Care Training offer the following specialist learning disability training events:

Introduction to Learning Disability

This course looks at the nature and causes of learning disability, including consideration of the historical perspective. Course details...

Behaviours that Challenge

This course helps delegates understand why people display challenging behavious, the stages of emotional arousal and strategies for managing it. Course details...

Autism & Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC)

What are autism and ASC and how do they present? This course enables delegates to consider what it may be like to live with this complex condition and to explore positive working practices. Course details...

Understanding Epilepsy

A course introducing delegates to the causes, types and presentation of epilepsy. Also includes management and treatment of the condition. Course details...

Mental Health in Learning Disability

Delegates will consider all aspects of mental ill health and the vulnerability factors for people with learning disabilities. The role of assessment tools in the treatment of people with dual diagnosis will also be looked at.  Course details...

Learning Disability and Self Harm

This course will help participants understand the reasons for self harm in learning disabilities and approaches to its management. Course details...

Dementia in people with Down's Syndrome                                                                                                    

This course will help participants understand the link between Dementia and Down's Syndrome,             and strategies to manage the care of people. Course details...   

Mental Capacity Act

This course examines issues around capacity and consent set within current legal framework.

Other courses available include:

• Understanding Aspergers Syndrome 
• Understanding Bi-Polar Disorder

Each course is mapped to the relevant Qualifications and credit Framework (QCF) units, Common Induction Standards and other Occupational Standards.