Learning Disability
Living with a learning disability should never mean living without choice. So with Denbridge Care, everything we do is driven by you and your circle of support. We specialize in supporting clients to love and value themselves, to deal with past trauma and to value life as they live in their own home. Recent attention, studies and research acknowledges that people with learning disabilities, and other complex needs, are a social group within society that are more likely to have experienced stress leading to trauma and trauma associated conditions; Trauma stress, post-traumatic stress, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD
Facts
Understanding Learning Disabilities
Learning disabilities are neurological disorders that affect a person's ability to understand or use spoken or written language, do mathematical calculations, coordinate movements, or direct attention.
Common Types of Learning Disabilities
Some common types of learning disabilities include dyslexia (difficulty with reading), dyscalculia (difficulty with math), dysgraphia (difficulty with writing), and auditory processing disorder (difficulty processing auditory information).
Supporting Individuals with Learning Disabilities
Individuals with learning disabilities often benefit from personalized support and accommodations, such as extra time on tests, assistive technology, and specialized instruction tailored to their needs.
Promoting Inclusivity and Empowerment
It's essential to create an inclusive environment where individuals with learning disabilities feel valued and empowered. This can involve fostering a supportive community, promoting self-advocacy skills, and offering opportunities for meaningful participation in activities and decision-making processes.
Training
Trauma Awareness Training is provided to staff across Denbridge. This training is provided at the generic level but is also provided at a bespoke person-centred training level for individuals within our services. Our person centred approach truly embraces our clients needs, values, wants and wishes. Working with professionals, families and education services we support each person to live their best life.
We adopt an integrated person-centred approach to supporting people, using goal achievement. processes to enable us to work with individuals to identify the things they need, the things they want to do and the things they want to achieve; and then tailor the support they need to do these.​
We recognise that everyone is unique, so all of the support we provide is individualised and person – centred. This means we take the time to listen and to understand what people want and need, to make sure that everything we do is based around that individual – their choices, their opinions, their likes and dislikes and personal preferences.