Handout 1.
My name is Miss Sara Jane Gorman I am a Visiting Literature for Learning Disability and Mental Health for the University Of Wolverhampton Walsall. I have disabilities and health problems myself. I have set up this study for all levels of Learning Disability nursing 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year and trained Learning disability nurses.
Learning disability can start before, during and after birth. Learning disabilities can be caused by genetics, injury to foetus, medical problems during pregnancy or prenatal exposure to drugs, alcohol, nicotine or other toxic; substances, lead poisoning, premature birth, low weigh birth, trauma or poor nutrition from pregnancy. More information about the causes of learning disabilities WWW.mencap.org.uk The Mother can become unwell during in pregnancy, there can be problems during the birth that not enough oxygen gets to the brain, the unborn baby developing certain genes, the parents passing certain genes to the unborn baby that gives them a learning disability, illnesses such as Meningitis or injury in early childhood. More information on WWW.nhs.uk
There are at least 1 in 5m people who have learning disabilities in the UK. There could be at least 350.000 who have severe learning disabilities, the figures are increasing. Learning disabilities can be mild, moderate or severe.
Hand 2. The benefit cuts.
This has become a worried because it’s costing Britain a lot of money but then not because a lot of places that help and support people with disabilities, health problems and the elderly the government seem to make cuts on, which is more of a worry that these people are getting either very little help or no help at all.
I have a huge concern on what people with disabilities, health problems and the elderly are going through with the cuts this day and age. The benefit cuts seem to have a huge affect on the lives of people with disabilities and health problems.
The problem seems to be that there are too much people on the benefit system now that there are too many people who don’t have good reasons to be on benefits as well as the people who do.
Nine times out of the ten the people who want to work are the ones who have good reasons for being on the benefit system yet and a lot of the people who don’t have a good reason don’t want to work but I won’t say all.
I feel it’s very wrong that the wrong people are getting punished, which are mostly the people with disabilities and health problems. It seems as if society sees vulnerable people as hard work, that we cost too much money, we are useless and helpless. It’s wrong to treat us as if we are to blame for giving ourselves disabilities and health problems in the eyes of society. We shouldn’t have been born to start with. This way society puts too much negatively into our head to make us believe we are hopeless and useless but we are not we just need the right help and support to get by in life.
This report needs to be seen more than just an awareness and study but these matters should be taken up with the British government to set up a system to find out who has a good enough reason to be on benefits and who hasn’t.
Most people who have good enough reasons to be on the benefit system suffer enough in stress as it is within their own disabilities and health problems.
Throughout this year I have raised awareness to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students on the benefit cuts but I feel now because a lot of people with disabilities and health problems have died because in some peoples’ cases, they haven’t had any money or not enough money to feed themselves, other people have not been getting any or enough help and support to a point they have taken their own lives.
This is why I feel the government needs to take these matters more than seriously. There needs to be a stop to this now, fair enough to save money but not to take it off those who need it most. This has become a huge risk to vulnerable lives. Anyone would think we have purposely planned to have disabilities and health problems to make life hard for others. Does anyone think we would choose to have disabilities and health problems? I certainly wouldn’t, I have learned to live with it but I don’t like it and I don’t think anyone else like myself would make that choose do.
Here are some matters that I have raised with my students which do need to be raised with the government. People who have had their benefits cuts should be having health check- ups while waiting for their appeals. We need to be checking to see whether or not the government are doing away with appeals. People hate depending on food banks. Places like DWP and Altos signing them off fit for work by forcing people into jobs they can’t manage were their health and safety is at risk without support. A lot of people suffer from such mental health problems like Anxiety and Depression and risk of taking their own lives, the stress of the benefit cuts is more risks to their health. Many people have found when they have tried to get support from a lot of services that can’t help them due to the funding, which now always seems to be the case. This even worse when people have had their benefits cut. Now the more people hear it the more they start to think it’s an excuse not to help them. The government needs to be aware of how serious these matters are affecting peoples’ lives. Everyone’s situation is different some are likely to need more support than others.
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Handout 4. About disabilities and health problems.
If someone has a mild brain damage on the left hand side of the brain, it normally causes them to face big barriers in their lives.
A learning disability is a condition that can be known as a learning disability caused by physical disabilities which means the person wouldn’t be able to cope with physical skills without the right support. The person could be a very slow learner through school years but catch up through work years.
A learning disability is also linked to Mental disabilities where the person may not be able cope with learning at school and even a job in an office for example without the right support. In any case learning disabilities can slow down the brain a lot of people would need support in school, college, and university within the workplace, in their own home and etc. It can affect how a person learns day to day, how a person copes to be independent. Making decisions and feeling controlled by others (PCP.) (Person Centered Planning.)(Many people with the right support do achieve skills. (PCP.) (Person Centered Planning.)
Handout 5. Understanding disabilities.
In the past Dyslexia has been known as word blind, which cause problems with reading, writing and memory but it doesn’t mean the person can’t read and write. Dysgraphia is known as a handwriting disability, the person may face motor skills problems such as finding it hard to tie their shoe laces but it could be Dyspraxia as well. Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADD, ADHD and Dysgraphia are not much different kinds of disabilities one another yet it’s possible you can have all of them, either one of them or some of them. Some peoples’ learning disabilities may slow them down for them to be slow learners. Motor skills problems could mean either the person has Dyspraxia or Dysgraphia or even both, which is classed as a hide physical disability which could be classed as learning difficulty.
Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Dysgraphia.
Issues in emotional disturbance can be caused from different disabilities and linked on mental health problems such as Anxiety and Depression. ADHD for example is class as a mental health problems as well as a learning disability. ADHD can make the person easily upset, uptight, may be moody and emotional at anytime, anyplace or anywhere with or without a reason just like Anxiety and Depression.
In the sense of ADHD being a learning disability is that it can affect a person’s ability to learn for example; they very often have problems coping with too many things at once, which can be concentration as well as coordination, which other things could link in Dyspraxia, Dyslexia or and Dysgraphia. http://www.adhdawarenessmonth.org/
Poor motor skills, poor coronation, most people can be clumsy and immature movement. Some people may find it hard to tie their shoes or and they may put their shoes on the wrong feet. Some people may find it hard to do up zips or and buttons. Some people may find it hard to skip or and clap to rhythm. Some people may find it hard to throw or and catch a ball. Most people may find it hard to do things in a limit of time. There might be a limit of things most people can do.
Most people such as myself are better off learning on one to one to make sure things are done to time also to make sure task or job is completed but that’s not always possible due to funding as the case is these days.
Most people such as myself are better off learning on one to one to make sure things are done to time also to make sure task or job is completed but that’s not always possible due to funding as the case is these days.
Lack in development milestones leg; (motor language.) Some people make find it hard to understand prepositions words such as up, down, under, forward and backwards. Some people might find it hard to understand undermined hand preference. Some people may have poor handwriting possibly due to Dysgraphia.
Hyperactivity and impulsive is likely to come into ADHD. Concept of body image, General awkwardness, Poor visual motor skills, slow at complimenting work, Poor organizing skills that could cause by Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dysgraphia, ADHD or and even all. Some people do have poor short and long term memory. http://blog.scope.org.uk/2015/09/29/i-have-dyspraxia-but-rude-people-tell-me-im-drunk-endtheawkward/?utm_content=buffer37ae2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Some people may have poor concentration due to such disabilities as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dysgraphia, ADHD or and etc. Some people may find it hard to explain things like shape, size, colour or and etc. Some people may get mixed up with ps and qs bs and ds.
Some people may not be good at sport due to coronation, grip problem. Some people may be easily furstraighted possibly due to Anxiety or and possibly ADHD.
Dyslexia.
Most people can be gifted such as having talents such as people with Dyslexia. Some people may grip the pen too tightly, which may cause their handwriting to be untidy. Most people may avoid most tasks in fear of failing mainly they have had other people their live who haven’t had any faith in them. Most people may find it hard to achieve success on a time scale.
For some people the brain work too fast for their pen to write or the other way round for some where mistakes are not always notice but other times they get stuck what to write, which come into Dyslexia.
Visual problems could be things like Dyslexia, memory problems, seeing and writing things the wrong way round, misreading and misunderstanding information, missing words and information when writing. Most people may find it hard to take in information which is where easy read comes in. Visual impairment such as Dyslexia may affect a person’s memory, they may have spelling problems, they may miss words out in writing, they may misread for example they may not notice most mistakes they make in their work. Some people can talk too lond while they are saying and thinking out and what they are writing in order to remember what they need to put down which can be a form of Dyslexia. Work can be unfinished for most people if they have been rushed to do. Most people find it hard to be organized. Most people find it hard to think about things in order.
Some people have a short term memory span. Some people have poor listening skills. Some people find it hard to follow directions and instructions which can vary from person to person. (Accessible information) (Easy read.) Most people may find it hard to leave a space between words typing; writing and talking some people can vary. A lot of people find it easy to give up if they feel others don’t have any faith in them, others can misunderstand them as thick and lazy, they are not, they are just slow learners that’s all, they just need the right support. Some people may find it hard to put pen to paper. For example; some people may have a talent in some kind of sport. See the positive of the person as well as the negative.
Some people may find it hard to remember the days of the week, months of the year and etc. Some people may find it hard to remember times tables. Some people may have poor time keep or and some may have problems tell the time.
Language barrier.
A learning disability can affect the way the person understands information.
People with disabilities and health problems don’t like words like handicap, retardation and Chronic medical.
Handout 6 -7 Impulsive behavior.
Emotion is a way a person feels towards life. In the case of people with disabilities and health problems it’s been hard enough as it is the fact we have had to face having disabilities and health problems without society treating us as if we are to blame for the way we are.
As it is with Mental Health problems such as Anxiety and Depression people have a hard job believing the positive in their live as it is. Many of us are slow learners but we get there slowly. People have mental Health problems such as Anxiety and Depression can cause people to be emotional and sensitive to life.
Some people may suffer from behavior problems such as Anxiety, ADHD many get up tight easily over certain situations.
People with most forms of Autism can be unaware of the feelings of others. Some people with some forms of Autism may find it hard to accept change.
More about learning disability.
Hearing impairment for example; deafness Sign language is a good form of communication for you to learn. If they suffer from deafness they may talk too loud unaware others can hear them. Deafwebsites.com
Some people have a lack of social skills finding it hard to make friendships, relationships and get along with people, which make them very lonely people. A lack of communication and understanding can lose people a lot of friendships, which they can't help because some disabilities and health problems can cause them to communicate in a different way that most people don't understand. They may even say something that the person has the right to be defended but totally unaware how they have made themselves come across, if anything it may be have not turned out the way the person planned it to be or and they may have said the opposite to what they planned to. For some people, I can be the same for what's in head to say doesn't always come of my month correctly.
People with speech problems can find it hard to get along with people too because a lot of people understandably can't understand what the person is saying but it's not their fault either. It's down to the other person understand that the person as a speech problem, which is wrong of person is talking to them when they can hear them. Many people misunderstand them for being drunk even. Making take the mickey of the way it sounds when people have got speech problems even people like myself who have the odd st udder problem.
People with speech problems very often find it easier to communicate by internet, emails and text, the only disadvantage. When something is important sometimes it takes longer for people to reply mainly with email but then it's understood that people can't be in their offices 24.7.
Speech or language impairment.
Some people may have slow speech development. Most people may find it hard to understand they are saying, therefore a lot of people may lose patience’s with them by cutting then off the phone or even telling to go wherever they are talking to them. There are very few people who may understand all or even some of what they say meaning those who may well have the patience’s to listen to them. The person may not be able to get a word in edgewise because they person rightly wants to make sure they have their say because there have been others who haven’t had the patience’s to listen to them.
People with speech problems very often find it easier to communicate by internet, emails and text, the only disadvantage. When something is important sometimes it takes longer for people to reply mainly with email but then it's understood that people can't be in their offices 24.7.
These days guys there's plenty of reference such as the internet as well as books from the University library, here are some useful tips and what to research for your assignment.
1. What are disabilities, health problems and long term conditions?
2. What type of disabilities, health problems and long term conditions are there?
3. Communication
4. Accessible information
1.Assessments find out what kind of assessments to people with disabilities and health with disabilities and health problems have to go through all their live on all topics.
2.Most people may be sent to the wrong places after their assessments think about how you can see that the person is sent to the right places after you assessed them?
3. Most people have been sent to the wrong places because they have been given the wrong diagnosed or they haven't been diagnosed at all, how can you give the right diagnose?
What benefit are there? Your research
1. DLA changing to PIP.
2. What rate of benefit is the person on? For eg; high rate, middle rate or low.
3. The amount of income the person will get will depend on the rate and even level of disability and health problems they have got.
4. It may even depend on the amount of care and support the person needs, although a lot of people due to cuts don't get as much or no care at all compared to what they used to.
5. Independence such as getting around.
6. What kind of care and support? For eg; personal care. Support with house work, cooking and shopping.
Employment and Support.
1. Working related group where there is a limit of what the person can do.
2. Support group is where they can do the odd bit volunteer work.
3. Find out what people go through to claim and get benefits.
4. Find out what people go through to get assessed.
5. Even education and work support.
https://www.gov.uk/employment-support-allowance/overview
This may be out of date but it is just example of what you may be need to know or and useful to know in case you have to know. http://www.tameside.gov.uk/esa/wca
https://www.google.co.uk/search?site=&source=hp&q=esa+assessment&oq=esa+a&gs_l=hp.1.0.0l10.2995.9449.0.12926.6.6.0.0.0.0.122.569.4j2.6.0....0...1c.1.64.hp..0.5.445.0.ppJ1GZL1OBs
Your patient's health is your main concern to you mainly they have disabilities and health problems. The huge concern has been people with disabilities and health problems having their benefits cut and even stopped. If your patient has their benefits cut or stopped, it can have a huge affect to your patient's health why is that? Please find out on my 2015 post of this website sararevealed.blogspot.com/ there's a lot of information you need to learn and be aware of.
Just to also remind you that this month will be Mental Health month so I will be raising a lot of awareness on my website and Facebook groups, which you are more than welcome to join if your on Facebook. I will advice you not to go on Facebook if you are student in college or university during class hours.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1039987746021742/?ref=bookmarks
https://www.facebook.com/groups/907563525994748/?ref=bookmarks
https://www.facebook.com/groups/264800150364109/?ref=bookmarks
https://www.facebook.com/groups/895482620570074/?ref=bookmarks
Read more information in the Disability Rights Handbook when it is updated in April or look online. Some the 2015 - 2016 information may still apply at the moment.
Just to let you know every April there is an update of the Disability Rights Handbook, which is update information on benefits, you may not need in your career but always useful to know just in case. This information is really for families, carers and advisers including disabled people themselves but not everyone has those people in their lives.
http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/2402/disability-and-sen-needs-assessment-1792012.pdf
https://youtu.be/9qkk4QY4bes
What we have we done what do we need to?
Due to half term I guess you won’t be studying a lot at the moment but not to worry, you don’t have to and no rush and it's half term. I wouldn't except you to study all the time but when you do, I have written down in the teaching programme what is a head us next so if you do have chance please prepare yourself, if not not to worry to we can all help each other as a group when the time comes. I understand you could be on placement as well. I am just letting know about the sessions we and have done and the sessions I plain to come. I will put this report in an email to Lynne which she should get after half term, I guess soon as she’s aware of it she will make you aware too.
Like I said I know you guys are Student Learning Disability nurses but the idea of you learning these topics, is the awareness of how everyday issues can have affect on the health of people with disabilities and health problems.
As for the that report about the Jobcentre and that, there's no stress, pres sager or time limit when you study it. It's just some update information of what people with disabilities and health problems are facing with benefits, support and employment theses days. I can't promise but maybe a session could be planned where we could do some work on that a piece of work. Ever so often we will do a bit of revision on each topic.
Like I said I know you guys are Student Learning Disability nurses but the idea of you learning these topics, is the awareness of how everyday issues can have affect on the health of people with disabilities and health problems.
As for the that report about the Jobcentre and that, there's no stress, pres sager or time limit when you study it. It's just some update information of what people with disabilities and health problems are facing with benefits, support and employment theses days. I can't promise but maybe a session could be planned where we could do some work on that a piece of work. Ever so often we will do a bit of revision on each topic.
Session 1 I introduced myself and a short bit of information of what I will be teaching, which was. What are learning disabilities and health problems? What kind of disabilities and health problems are there? Communication and Accessible information.
Second session. We did your first module was on the 23rd September 2015. You introduced yourselves to me, Lynne, each other and we introduced ourselves . I spoke to you about PCP Person Centered planning how that works, the balance between support and independence. You told me different forms of communication, which I listed down on the board. I can’t say when but I hope to do a session where we go through what disabilities and health problems there are and how different people communicate with these disabilities and health problems. Very well done for what you have all done so far.
3rd session. was the Benefit cuts 21st October 2015, just a little bit of reference advice. I can understand this reference could be very hard to get hold of but if you can get hold of it, there’s a lot of useful information, I don't except to look at it all the time but a bit of a time and learn as much as what you can before it goes out of date if you do get access to it. It’s the Disability Rights Handbook, I never thought about it until my sister bought me a copy for my birthday. I can understand as far as buying is concerned it may be too pricey and the same to download it as well. You may be able to get a copy from the library, which may better because it’s only dated from the April 2015 to April 2016. It’s according whether or not the libraries have a copy. You may able to ask even if the University library if there's a copy there. I don’t want to keep on teaching the benefit cuts every session I do at the University but I may be able to ask Lynne if I could photocopy a page ever so often before the book goes out of date then we can do a bit of work on it or get a copy each for you. WWW.disabilityrightsuk.org
Well done for all of who took part in the Benefit’s cut session, everyone did very well indeed thank you.
Session 4 is to come. Different types of disabilities and health problems.
· What are learning disabilities and health problems?
· What kind of disabilities and health problems are there?
· How do disabilities and health problems start?
· What can cause disabilities and health problems?
· WWW.mencap.org.uk for learning disabilities.
· Tap your search engine in Mind, Rethink or and Healthy Mind for health problems.
- I forgot to add to the first and second session is to find out how much difference there is if any between learning disabilities and learning difficulties.
- If there's time in the next session we may do some work on PCP Person Centered Planning if not we can plan it for another session.
Session 5. (Accessible information easy read.)
More sessions are to be planned from there. I will also ask Lynne to forward this report in an email to Steven and Mick to share with the 3rd year and for Lynne to share it with the 2nd year too.
Here is an aware of the lack of support disabled people are now getting with employment and that.
More jobcentre recordings: We can’t help disabled claimants at this jobcentre. You’ll have to go elsewhere
Posted on October 26, 2015
Here’s a very recent example of the extraordinary lack of support that disabled JSA claimants can find at jobcentres when they’re looking work.
In the recording below, an adviser at a north London jobcentre actually tells me that advisers at this jobcentre can’t give extra job search help or support to the disabled claimant who I’m with. The adviser doesn’t try to pretend otherwise. He says that the jobcentre can’t help this disabled man, because there are no Disability Employment Advisers at this jobcentre now (DEAs are advisers who are meant to have additional skills and time for disabled benefit claimants). Nobody else at the jobcentre can give the man extra support. The adviser said that the man’s only choice was to move jobcentres to one that does still have specialist disability advisers. That was the end of that. So much, I thought, for the DWP’s claims to me by recent email that disabled benefit claimants can expect “tailored support specific to their individual needs,” at jobcentres. These DWP claims of “tailored support” for disabled JSA claimants are rot as far as I’m concerned – as great a lie as the DWP’s use of fake benefit claimants and quotes in leaflets. It seems to me that when the DWP talks about “tailored support” for disabled claimants at jobcentres, the DWP pretends to offer a service that it does not.
The disabled JSA claimant in this case is a 52-year-old man who has learning and literacy difficulties. He worked for years as a kitchen and general assistant, but hasn’t found work since he was made redundant from his last job about six years ago. I’ve attended his JSA sign on sessions with him for over a year (we both wonder why we still bother a lot of the time). This man struggles with writing and spelling in particular. We’ve spent much time filling in job applications together. Here’s an example of an application form he filled in where he copied words that I wrote in my notebook into the form. You can see the trouble that he has writing coherent sentences even when he copies text:
This man often says that he is keen for a job. He says that he attends job fairs and when we met last week, we arranged to meet again to fill in application forms for porter and general assistant roles (he can’t use a computer, so needs other people to make online applications). He needs help to fill in the forms. He says that he’s lost his chance at jobs in the past, because he couldn’t complete forms to an acceptable standard: “I went to a nursing home in Enfield which I really should have got in there, because it was just a simple kitchen assistant job. No – the reason they give me was Oh, there were some mistakes in the application form and the spelling.”
That’s why at this man’s JSA sign on meeting last week, I asked the jobcentre adviser if anyone at the jobcentre could help this guy fill in his forms. The adviser said No, nobody could. The reason given? – this jobcentre no longer had a Disability Employment Adviser to provide that sort of support, as I say. The DEA left a few months ago, wasn’t replaced and nobody had taken on the extra duties. (The now-departed DEA at this jobcentre told me earlier this year that nobody else at the jobcentre would have time to help disabled claimants when she left). The jobcentre’s advice for this man was that he should move jobcentres, to Tottenham, if he wanted any help. There were still two DEAs working at the Tottenham jobcentre. And… that was it. I was sitting there thinking – great. Iain Duncan Smith wants to force more sick or disabled people onto job-seekers’ allowance and this is his idea of tailored job search support – a sad shrug from a jobcentre adviser and an instruction to go elsewhere:
Recording:
Transcript:
Me – “is there any facility like now that [DEA name removed] is gone for someone to help with an application? I mean I’m quite happy to help, but I just wondered if the jobcentre offered that kind of service… [to help with] the writing… this kind of stuff…
C – we don’t have ….that’s what I was explaining to him [the claimant], I don’t know if he was here with you, that before leaving [DEA name removed] knew that there would be no one to take over. She told me that she was advising him to go back to the Tottenham jobcentre, because Tottenham they have two [DEAs]
M – Yeah, he just has trouble getting there. So here they don’t, really, basically.”
A couple of things here.
The first thing is that moving jobcentres can be very difficult for someone who needs some support and finds change very hard to cope with. This man had already moved jobcentres from Kilburn when he was rehoused earlier this year. He hasn’t coped well with the move. He’s often angry and belligerent. Another move to another jobcentre would not be easy. He resists the idea absolutely. God only knows if he’d have to move again at some point, as well. The adviser we saw last week said that he expected the number of DEAs to drop across jobcentres, too – “to save money,” he said. Appointments at jobcentres already get cancelled because of a lack of staff. I have turned up for a number of jobcentre or work programme meetings over the past year, only to find that they’ve been cancelled due to a staff shortage. I can’t imagine this situation or the numbers improving.
The second point I’d make is that Disability Employment Advisers aren’t always brilliantly helpful anyway. I’m not convinced that “tailored support” for sick or disabled people is their exact goal. I think that their focus is governments: to push everybody into unpaid or very low-paid work. The DEAs I’ve met seem obsessed with pushing disabled people into unpaid work, or with lining disabled people up for the work programme and low-paid work choice jobs. Earlier this year, this man and I met several times with the DEA who recently departed this jobcentre. She ignored this man’s concerns about his diabetic illness ( you can hear a recording here ) and spent our meetings trying to sign this guy up for voluntary work, or for work choice programmes with Seetec. She didn’t fill in applications forms either, just by the way. She pushed reams of forms over the desk and expected me to talk the guy into agreeing to sign up for work choice, and, presumably, to fill in the forms if he did agree. There was nothing tailored going on there.
You see my point. Our fortnightly visits to the jobcentre are utterly hopeless. I’ve introduced a post-sign on lunch at Wetherspoons into the outing just so that we have something to look forward to and can chat like human beings. I’m guessing that this guy has been parked by the jobcentre in some way: he’s been unemployed for a long time, he’s getting older and he isn’t well (he has trouble with his diabetes and seems to struggle to manage his sugar levels). He has become very defensive and resistant as time has dragged on. I’d say that his various jobcentres have stuck him on some sort of Too Hard to Fix list. It may also be that decent advisers don’t want to torture him any more than they have to. It seems likely these people know full well that his only real options outside the jobcentre are unpaid work, or very low-paid, insecure, manual jobs. That being the case, they sign him on and let him go. And so on we go with the charade: backwards and forwards we travel to that jobcentre. We sit, see the jobcentre adviser and get that week’s job search signed off. Occasionally, an adviser makes noises about the work programme. We hear those noises and then we leave. I suppose that sooner or later, someone will force him onto another work programme course (he’s been on four).
I keep trying to work out what is really going on here. This guy is older and unwell, and now he’s belligerent. The jobcentre is just a place that guys in his situation are dumped these days. I expect he’ll soon be joined by plenty more people in similar situations. I already talk with other people in similar situations. As I say, Iain Duncan Smith plans to push more disabled people off disability benefits and onto job seekers’ allowance as people are expected to find work. His department claims that all will be well, because jobcentres are geared up to provide the support that sick or disabled people need to find decent work. That DWP email again: “Job seekers now have access to dedicated work coaches, who are trained to provide tailored support specific to their individual needs.” I’m saying I Think Not. This service isn’t tailored. It’s threadbare. There’s a disabled woman I attend another London jobcentre with: we’ve turned up twice to scheduled meetings with a work coach this year only to be told at the door that the work coach couldn’t make it.
It is high time that the DWP and work programme providers gave us some transparency with this “system.” Reporters should be given free access to work programme and work choice placements, and jobcentres. Let’s see what this tailored support really looks like all over. If Iain Duncan Smith is really going to shove more sick or disabled people into jobcentres, they will need something better than this. I can’t imagine that they’ll get it.
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13 THOUGHTS ON “MORE JOBCENTRE RECORDINGS: WE CAN’T HELP DISABLED CLAIMANTS AT THIS JOBCENTRE. YOU’LL HAVE TO GO ELSEWHERE”
1. Dino on October 26, 2015 at 15:46 said:
When I lived near Leeds I used to shop in Castle ford and passed a job center on the way to ALDI, this wasn’t the job center I had to sign on at the one I signed on at was 9.2 miles from my home this one was just over 4 miles away, 4.4 to be exact, when I queried it with them they said that Here is an aware of the lack of support disabled people are now getting with employment and that.
More jobcentre recordings: We can’t help disabled claimants at this jobcentre. You’ll have to go elsewhere
Posted on October 26, 2015
Here’s a very recent example of the extraordinary lack of support that disabled JSA claimants can find at jobcentres when they’re looking work.
In the recording below, an adviser at a north London jobcentre actually tells me that advisers at this jobcentre can’t give extra job search help or support to the disabled claimant who I’m with. The adviser doesn’t try to pretend otherwise. He says that the jobcentre can’t help this disabled man, because there are no Disability Employment Advisers at this jobcentre now (DEAs are advisers who are meant to have additional skills and time for disabled benefit claimants). Nobody else at the jobcentre can give the man extra support. The adviser said that the man’s only choice was to move jobcentres to one that does still have specialist disability advisers. That was the end of that. So much, I thought, for the DWP’s claims to me by recent email that disabled benefit claimants can expect “tailored support specific to their individual needs,” at jobcentres. These DWP claims of “tailored support” for disabled JSA claimants are rot as far as I’m concerned – as great a lie as the DWP’s use of fake benefit claimants and quotes in leaflets. It seems to me that when the DWP talks about “tailored support” for disabled claimants at jobcentres, the DWP pretends to offer a service that it does not.
The disabled JSA claimant in this case is a 52-year-old man who has learning and literacy difficulties. He worked for years as a kitchen and general assistant, but hasn’t found work since he was made redundant from his last job about six years ago. I’ve attended his JSA sign on sessions with him for over a year (we both wonder why we still bother a lot of the time). This man struggles with writing and spelling in particular. We’ve spent much time filling in job applications together. Here’s an example of an application form he filled in where he copied words that I wrote in my notebook into the form. You can see the trouble that he has writing coherent sentences even when he copies text:
This man often says that he is keen for a job. He says that he attends job fairs and when we met last week, we arranged to meet again to fill in application forms for porter and general assistant roles (he can’t use a computer, so needs other people to make online applications). He needs help to fill in the forms. He says that he’s lost his chance at jobs in the past, because he couldn’t complete forms to an acceptable standard: “I went to a nursing home in Enfield which I really should have got in there, because it was just a simple kitchen assistant job. No – the reason they give me was Oh, there were some mistakes in the application form and the spelling.”
That’s why at this man’s JSA sign on meeting last week, I asked the jobcentre adviser if anyone at the jobcentre could help this guy fill in his forms. The adviser said No, nobody could. The reason given? – this jobcentre no longer had a Disability Employment Adviser to provide that sort of support, as I say. The DEA left a few months ago, wasn’t replaced and nobody had taken on the extra duties. (The now-departed DEA at this jobcentre told me earlier this year that nobody else at the jobcentre would have time to help disabled claimants when she left). The jobcentre’s advice for this man was that he should move jobcentres, to Tottenham, if he wanted any help. There were still two DEAs working at the Tottenham jobcentre. And… that was it. I was sitting there thinking – great. Iain Duncan Smith wants to force more sick or disabled people onto jobseekers’ allowance and this is his idea of tailored job search support – a sad shrug from a jobcentre adviser and an instruction to go elsewhere:
Recording:
Transcript:
Me – “is there any facility like now that [DEA name removed] is gone for someone to help with an application? I mean I’m quite happy to help, but I just wondered if the jobcentre offered that kind of service… [to help with] the writing… this kind of stuff…
C – we don’t have ….that’s what I was explaining to him [the claimant], I don’t know if he was here with you, that before leaving [DEA name removed] knew that there would be no one to take over. She told me that she was advising him to go back to the Tottenham jobcentre, because Tottenham they have two [DEAs]
M – Yeah, he just has trouble getting there. So here they don’t, really, basically.”
A couple of things here.
The first thing is that moving jobcentres can be very difficult for someone who needs some support and finds change very hard to cope with. This man had already moved jobcentres from Kilburn when he was rehoused earlier this year. He hasn’t coped well with the move. He’s often angry and belligerent. Another move to another jobcentre would not be easy. He resists the idea absolutely. God only knows if he’d have to move again at some point, as well. The adviser we saw last week said that he expected the number of DEAs to drop across jobcentres, too – “to save money,” he said. Appointments at jobcentres already get cancelled because of a lack of staff. I have turned up for a number of jobcentre or work programme meetings over the past year, only to find that they’ve been cancelled due to a staff shortage. I can’t imagine this situation or the numbers improving.
The second point I’d make is that Disability Employment Advisers aren’t always brilliantly helpful anyway. I’m not convinced that “tailored support” for sick or disabled people is their exact goal. I think that their focus is governments: to push everybody into unpaid or very low-paid work. The DEAs I’ve met seem obsessed with pushing disabled people into unpaid work, or with lining disabled people up for the work programme and low-paid work choice jobs. Earlier this year, this man and I met several times with the DEA who recently departed this jobcentre. She ignored this man’s concerns about his diabetic illness ( you can hear a recording here ) and spent our meetings trying to sign this guy up for voluntary work, or for work choice programmes with Seetec. She didn’t fill in applications forms either, just by the way. She pushed reams of forms over the desk and expected me to talk the guy into agreeing to sign up for work choice, and, presumably, to fill in the forms if he did agree. There was nothing tailored going on there.
You see my point. Our fortnightly visits to the jobcentre are utterly hopeless. I’ve introduced a post-sign on lunch at Wetherspoons into the outing just so that we have something to look forward to and can chat like human beings. I’m guessing that this guy has been parked by the jobcentre in some way: he’s been unemployed for a long time, he’s getting older and he isn’t well (he has trouble with his diabetes and seems to struggle to manage his sugar levels). He has become very defensive and resistant as time has dragged on. I’d say that his various jobcentres have stuck him on some sort of Too Hard to Fix list. It may also be that decent advisers don’t want to torture him any more than they have to. It seems likely these people know full well that his only real options outside the jobcentre are unpaid work, or very low-paid, insecure, manual jobs. That being the case, they sign him on and let him go. And so on we go with the charade: backwards and forwards we travel to that jobcentre. We sit, see the jobcentre adviser and get that week’s job search signed off. Occasionally, an adviser makes noises about the work programme. We hear those noises and then we leave. I suppose that sooner or later, someone will force him onto another work programme course (he’s been on four).
I keep trying to work out what is really going on here. This guy is older and unwell, and now he’s belligerent. The jobcentre is just a place that guys in his situation are dumped these days. I expect he’ll soon be joined by plenty more people in similar situations. I already talk with other people in similar situations. As I say, Iain Duncan Smith plans to push more disabled people off disability benefits and onto job seekers’ allowance as people are expected to find work. His department claims that all will be well, because jobcentres are geared up to provide the support that sick or disabled people need to find decent work. That DWP email again: “Job seekers now have access to dedicated work coaches, who are trained to provide tailored support specific to their individual needs.” I’m saying I Think Not. This service isn’t tailored. It’s threadbare. There’s a disabled woman I attend another London jobcentre with: we’ve turned up twice to scheduled meetings with a work coach this year only to be told at the door that the work coach couldn’t make it.
It is high time that the DWP and work programme providers gave us some transparency with this “system.” Reporters should be given free access to work programme and work choice placements, and jobcentres. Let’s see what this tailored support really looks like all over. If Iain Duncan Smith is really going to shove more sick or disabled people into jobcentres, they will need something better than this. I can’t imagine that they’ll get it.
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13 THOUGHTS ON “MORE JOBCENTRE RECORDINGS: WE CAN’T HELP DISABLED CLAIMANTS AT THIS JOBCENTRE. YOU’LL HAVE TO GO ELSEWHERE”
1. Dino on October 26, 2015 at 15:46 said:
When I lived near Leeds I used to shop in Castle ford and passed a job center on the way to ALDI, this wasn’t the job center I had to sign on at the one I signed on at was 9.2 miles from my home this one was just over 4 miles away, 4.4 to be exact, when I queried it with them they said that JC+ was not in my area.
Re “tailored support specific to [our] individual needs”: Disability Equality Trainer M T has advised that the word ‘requirements’ is more powerful than ‘needs’. ‘Needs’ is a word too much linked to ‘neediness’, whereas ‘requirements suggest rights, responsibilities and authority.
And “tailored support” presupposes proper assessment of what our disabilities really involve. Proper assessment in itself would involve substantial up-front investment. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale tests I went through with Camden Learning Disability Services near my 60th birthday indicate that for some intellectual functioning categories, my scores are ‘borderline’ on ‘learning disability’ range that is set at or below IQ score of 70. The subsequent report from CLDS gives me great documentation for ESA ‘Work Capability Assessment’ purposes, but no entitlement to even a formal diagnosis from CLDS that would formally diagnose my impairment/disability as dyspraxia.
Such a formal diagnosis, I am told, would cost me hundreds of pounds. So in effect, all the learning-and-co-learning hoops and hurdles I have gone through over the decades since 1978 when a Manpower Services Commission-run ‘Employment Rehabilitation Center's ‘Occupational Psychologist’ [sic] told me that my career difficulties stemmed from “a birth defect” have befitted me nothing in terms of employment credit.
Right wing ‘welfare reform’ is not really about rewarding effort and ‘saving disabled people from worthlessness’, but the privatization of the welfare state and screwing the economically vulnerable. Benefit sanctions and threat of sanctions are really a means of unconscionable global corporations finding commercial profit in exploiting the people they would previously have ‘parked’ as not worth the current time of day.
JC+ was not in my area.
Re “tailored support specific to [our] individual needs”: Disability Equality Trainer M T has advised that the word ‘requirements’ is more powerful than ‘needs’. ‘Needs’ is a word too much linked to ‘neediness’, whereas ‘requirements suggest rights, responsibilities and authority.
And “tailored support” presupposes proper assessment of what our disabilities really involve. Proper assessment in itself would involve substantial up-front investment. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale tests I went through with Camden Learning Disability Services near my 60th birthday indicate that for some intellectual functioning categories, my scores are ‘borderline’ on ‘learning disability’ range that is set at or below IQ score of 70. The subsequent report from CLDS gives me great documentation for ESA ‘Work Capability Assessment’ purposes, but no entitlement to even a formal diagnosis from CLDS that would formally diagnose my impairment/disability as dyspraxia.
Such a formal diagnosis, I am told, would cost me hundreds of pounds. So in effect, all the learning-and-co-learning hoops and hurdles I have gone through over the decades since 1978 when a Manpower Services Commission-run ‘Employment Rehabilitation Center's ‘Occupational Psychologist’ [sic] told me that my career difficulties stemmed from “a birth defect” have benefited me nothing in terms of employment credit.
Right wing ‘welfare reform’ is not really about rewarding effort and ‘saving disabled people from worthlessness’, but the privatization of the welfare state and screwing the economically vulnerable. Benefit sanctions and threat of sanctions are really a means of unconscionable global corporations finding commercial profit in exploiting the people they would previously have ‘parked’ as not worth the current time of day.
tress of benefit cuts.
· People with disabilities and health problems are more sensitive to stress than other people due to our disabilities and health problems.
· If people have their benefits cuts they won’t have access to counselling because there will be money to pay for it without benefits.
· People who have their benefits cut are in risk of hunger and or debt.
· People worry about owing money which can push them to end their lives.
· So many people have overdosed.
· Not everyone who has their benefits cut or stopped has a negative ending. ·
· Winning appeals doesn’t necessary they are going to be better off than before they lost their benefits?
· People may worry that they may not have enough money back to pay what they may owe.
· This is where they are in risk of going hungry and homeless.
§ People can’t affront to live when they have lost their benefits for example paying bills, eating, rent, they may end up homeless and or etc.
§ People who have their benefits stopped are in risk of going hungry or and going into debt.
§ People worry about owing people money.
STRESSES ON PEOPLE'S HEALTH.
§ Due to peoples’ health problems Stress pushes them into taking their own lives if life gets too much for them.
§ Stress can mostly affect those who have such health problems like Anxiety, Depression, Epilepsy, Asthma, diabetes, and etc
§ Many people have taken overdoses.
§ Many have taken and lost their own lives.
Awareness of learning disabilities and mental health awareness benefit cuts.
• This is an update of the Benefits cuts awareness presentation.
• Lives of vulnerable peoples matters as much as yours.
• As you know stress is the biggest killer of all but if you are a vulnerable person, you can't cope with it as much as other people.
• What professions need to be aware of is that 10’600 people with disabilities and health problems died last year due to the benefit cuts.
• I was only aware the figures on Sunday 29th March 2015.
§ People are finding it hard to affront living experiences.
§ Many people have lost their lives through eating very little nothing at all.
How long?
• Appeals could take up to a year or two.
• If you have access online a lot please check when you can to see if anything I have made you aware of has change, if to see if anything has been replaced whatever.
• Some people have said that the government have said they are thinking about stopping appeals, it may or may not be true, they may have stopped them now or will be in the future so try to keep up with what’s going on as much as you can.
• Most people take longer.
• Some take longer than others.
§ People who have their benefits stopped are in risk of going hungry or and going into debt.
§ People worry about owing people money.
§ Many people have lost their lives through eating very little nothing at all.
The wait depends on.
• Peoples’ issues
• On people’s Disabilities and Health Problems.
Stress of benefit cuts.
· People with disabilities and health problems are more sensitive to stress than other people due to our disabilities and health problems.
· If people have their benefits cuts they won’t have access to counselling because there will be money to pay for it without benefits.
· People who have their benefits cut are in risk of hunger and or debt.
· People worry about owing money which can push them to end their lives.
· So many people have overdosed.
· Not everyone who has their benefits cut or stopped has a negative ending. ·
· Winning appeals doesn’t necessary they are going to be better off than before they lost their benefits?
· People may worry that they may not have enough money back to pay what they may owe.
· This is where they are in risk of going hungry and homeless.
§ People can’t affront to live when they have lost their benefits for example paying bills, eating, rent, they may end up homeless and or etc.
Most people take longer.
• Some take longer than others.
The wait depends on.
• Peoples’ issues
• On people’s Disabilities and Health Problems.
The waiting time is a big risk to people's’ health.
• People with disabilities and health problems are more sensitive than other people.
• People worry about owing to people and services money.
• These worries and stresses put people at risk of taking their own lives.
• Most people have taken overdoses.
• Just to let you know that there are some people who do pull through.
• Not all GPS can check peoples’ health while people are waiting for their appeal.
• People should have their health checks even more so while going through appeals but there’s not always the funding and time according to the system.
• People are in risk of being more stressed hungry or and going into debt.
• The food banks can only give people so much food.
• A lot of people feel embarrassed by having to have free food.
• Most people live on their own and they have very little support even harder if their benefits are cut or and stopped.
• People are in risk of losing their homes while their benefits are cut or stopped.
• The government has been known to cut and stop people's’ money with or without a reason just to save money.
- Most people have taken overdoses.
• Just to let you know that there are some people who do pull through.
• Not all GPS can check peoples’ health while people are waiting for their appeal.
How stress affects people’s health.
§ Due to peoples’ health problems Stress push them into taking their own lives if life gets too much for them.
§ Stress can mostly affect those who have such health problems like Anxiety, Depression, Epilepsy, Asthma, diabetes, and etc
§ Many people have taken overdoses.
§ Many have taken and lost their own lives.
The risks people are in.
The waiting time is a big risk to people's’ health.
• People with disabilities and health problems are more sensitive than other people.
• People worry about owing to people and services money.
• These worries and stresses put people at risk of taking their own lives.
§ People are finding it hard to affront living experiences.
· Risk of people going hungry or in debt.
Last year’s 1st year January to March 2015.
Benefit cuts awareness Feedback.
I really emphasised with what Sara was saying. I could see that the benefit system doesn’t seem to understand nor care about people with LD.
It was good that Sara highlighted the emotional, physical and psychological problems facing people with LD. It is bad that the Government, who are meant to be looking after the people, have put laws and systems in place that leave people with LD in such distress.
People with LD can experience anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, illness, lose their homes, be without money for long periods of time, due to their benefits being stopped or assessed.
It was good that Sara highlighted the emotional, physical and psychological problems facing people with LD. It is bad that the Government, who are meant to be looking after the people, have put laws and systems in place that leave people with LD in such distress.
People with LD can experience anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, illness, lose their homes, be without money for long periods of time, due to their benefits being stopped or assessed.
People with LD need as much help as possible when it comes to benefits. And as future LD nurses, we will be aware of their plight and in a position to help with applications, as advocates, and with calming their fears.
At this particular moment in time it is all about awareness, understanding, and empathy. If a LD nurse is aware of the issues then we will be in a better position to help people with LD who is in this situation.
Last year’s 2nd year Student's feedback from the Benefit cuts awareness session Monday 11th May 2015 University Of Wolverhampton Walsall Campus.
Benefit cuts:
· Services cuts / already some services are closed
· Limited / no respite services for families
· Increased crime figures due to cuts?
· Lack of support in the home people are just left to cope alone because of lack of funding
· Mental health problems increasing
· Isolation / decreased socialization lack of activities
· Increased immobility = health issues
· Government plans to be aware of these so as to help service users
· Community after hospitals closed but there is ever decreasing support available
· Increased likelihood of not getting roles due to CV changes or limited chances
· Job centres not always in line with work areas – availability of posts etc
· Increase in homelessness
Poverty
· Suitable job – not just any job
· Direct payments = effects on people
· Abuse of the vulnerable
· Increase in protests / strikes?
· Lord Willis Raising the bar report
Feedback on the benefit cuts awareness session from last year’s 3rd year.
I am glad you enjoyed the presentation; my confidence and presentation content those of you who were in my session.
I am glad you have learned how to help people who have had their benefits cut.
Yes this topic is your role when it comes to looking out for your patient’s health.
Sara’s feedback: I am very happy that you’re happy with my feedback. I have learned as much from the students as they do from me.
Each session I do I will learn better for the next time I do a session? I feel I remembered to explain more what a student job role is this time than I did last time. The role of a learning disability nurse is looking for the health of learning disabilities and health problems. The state of the system with services going through cuts and benefit cut is a huge risk to the health of patients.
The changes that need to be made are that the health needs of people with disabilities and health problems need to be take care of to save lives. People with disabilities and health problems are human just like other people so do their lives matter just like other peoples.
I am glad you have learned about the insight of the benefit cuts and how they affect people with a learning disability.
Risk of people being from service to service with no help prevented can be a huge affects on their health with Anxiety and Depression.
Risk of people being from service to service with no help prevented can be a huge affects on their health with Anxiety and Depression.
Thank you so much for your great feedback I’m so glad you enjoyed listening to my information. I am just so sorry about the limit of time so yes please look at my website to learn more thank so much for taking time to be in my session and I thank you everyone as well for your patience’s in yesterday’s class.
The risk can be with most people there doesn’t seem to be very clear information people with disabilities and health to when they have go through when they are going through benefit change. For example: DLA changing to PIP some people have gone through it others haven’t. Most people worry like myself for example when am I going to get this over and done with? Benefit letters don’t seem to be very clear and there’s far too much information for a lot of people with disabilities and health problems.
I have joined a few other things about Person Centered Planning and disabilities and health problems which could link into your work.
Last year’s 1st year January to March 2015.
Benefit cuts awareness Feedback.
Feedback on the benefit cuts awareness session from last year’s 3rd year.
I am glad you enjoyed the presentation; my confidence and presentation content those of you who were in my session.
I am glad you have learned how to help people who have had their benefits cut.
Yes this topic is your role when it comes to looking out for your patient’s health.
Sara’s feedback: I am very happy that you’re happy with my feedback. I have learned as much from the students as they do from me.
Each session I do I will learn better for the next time I do a session? I feel I remembered to explain more what a student job role is this time than I did last time. The role of a learning disability nurse is looking for the health of learning disabilities and health problems. The state of the system with services going through cuts and benefit cut is a huge risk to the health of patients.
The changes that need to be made are that the health needs of people with disabilities and health problems need to be take care of to save lives. People with disabilities and health problems are human just like other people so do their lives matter just like other peoples.
I am glad you have learned about the insight of the benefit cuts and how they affect people with a learning disability.
Feedback from students and myself of the benefit cuts awareness sessions.
When I have done the benefit awareness session on Wednesday I would have done it four times so therefore I won’t be teaching it again till next September - October 2016 when next year’s 1st year comes in. After Wednesday to next Autumn I hope to be setting up other sessions. I understand it will be hard for last year’s 3rd year to share the feedback as they are not with us now unless they manage to have time to look at my website. As it’s my last benefit awareness for twelve months, I would like us to after plan after this session for this year’s 1st, 2nd 3rd year plus myself, Lynne and Steve to get together to say what we have learned off each other’s feedback, which will be put into this report.
I have joined a few other things about Person Centered Planning and disabilities and health problems which could link into your work.
Feedback to and from first students 21st October 2015.
Sara’s feedback I am more than glad you guys learned out my benefit session today. Well done everybody.
Here is your feedback to me.
List three things you enjoyed.
The presentation
Learning to identify the barriers people with disabilities and health problems face on the benefit system.
How long it can take until people have their appeal. Next step is to research update information whether or not appeals are still going ahead for people, please email me on sarajgorman@gmail.com
List three things you least enjoyed
I know it’s not always easy but please try to be on time for your sessions, if you are your going to be late someone know so they can feedback to you on what you may have missed.
Thank you NJ for saying someone walks in I can easy lose track with what I am doing, this easy happen. I know it does not easy please try to be on if you can’t be please make someone aware.
Text colour on white background not the best, if anyone wants the presentation done in any kind of way please tell Lynne if you are aware I am doing a session then she can tell me thank you.
What to learn!
Please research to see if there is any other benefits other than the ones I made you aware of today, then please feedback to me on sarajgorman@gmail.com also find out there are other places that have signed vulnerable people off fit for work without support in work they can’t manage.
A lot of you have said DWP, PIP and Altos!
See if you can find out more research and information yourself now.
Please do your research on these sites then feedback to me on sarajgorman@gmail.com
Find out about these Mental Health services!
· Healthy Minds
· Rethink
· Mind
What have the students learned?
· The students have learned that the benefit system is too much to bear.
· They have learned about some of the benefits that are around but they are going to research to see if they are other benefits around that I am not aware of to make me aware and how they work.
· They have said I have taught them a good insight of the stress the benefit system on how the stress affects vulnerable people’s health.
- Well done to you all guys and if there was anyone not able to get there that would have done please feedback to them thank you.
Comments from my work colleague Lynne.
Fantastic session well explored of all aspects of all the topic.
My Comments.
I have tried to encourage the students to research online to find out what benefits are around.
I have told them the risks to disabled people’s health the benefit cuts do have for example not having enough money to eat and the risk of them losing a lot of weight but the risk of debt if they have to borrow money. Students need to learn more of the stress these situations have to vulnerable people’s health. Well done to everyone who was taking part in the session.
Anxiety and Depression isn't all black and white no one knows what is under a smile but then you shouldn't have to look and seem sad all the while to prove you suffer from Anxiety and Depression. Even people who made you laugh can feel very sad inside. Anxiety and Depression is a sad and angry feeling, which you can spend you all your life to fight.
On the bright side people with disabilities and health problems are not helpless and we are not useless there's just a limit of what we can do. We may well need support with everyday living but then a lot of us if not all are talented in other ways but then with these cuts going now it's a case of managing the best way we can because support is limited compared to what it used to be,
In terms of your possible work.
This is where I feel sorry for a lot of services, hospitals, GP surgeries and etc in one way. It can be hard to know whether or not most people are lacking for attention or not in the terms of pretending to be someone they are not just to get proof to go benefits because they don't want to work yet there are most that are the complete opposite, it can be hard to prove one way or the other. This is one of the things that can cause a lot of mistakes. For example about twelve months ago I saw a report online about a GP having wrote a sick out for a patient who had a cold and yet there's been those who have had more serious that can't seem to get any proof for themselves at all.
Different seem to have different experiences with the GPS. Some people will say that GPS don't have enough training and others see it in a way that most of the job they don't want to but yes there have been other who have said they have had bad experiences with the GPS but then many have with hospitals too.
Handout 1 Waiting for the appeals.
How long?
• Appeals could take up to a year or two.
• If you have access online a lot please check every now and then to see if the information I teach like for example to find out whether or not people can appeal still if they have their benefits cut, please try to keep yourself up to date with these things when you time to do so.
• Some people have said that the government have said they are thinking about stopping appeals, it may or may not be true, they may have stopped them now or will be in the future so try to keep up with what’s going on as much as you can.
• Most people take longer.
• Some take longer than others.
The wait depends on.
• Peoples’ issues
• On people’s Disabilities and Health Problems.
The waiting time is a big risk to peoples’ health.
• People with disabilities and health problems are more sensitive than other people.
• People worry about owing to people and services money.
• These worries and stresses put people at risk of taking their own lives.
• Most people have taken overdoses.
• Just to let you know that there are some people who do pull through.
• Not all GPS can check peoples’ health while people are waiting for their appeal.
• People should have their health checks even more so while going through appeals but there’s not always the funding and time according to the system.
• People are in risk of being more stressed hungry or and going into debt.
• The food banks can only give people so much food.
• A lot of people feel embarrassed by having to have free food.
• Most people live on their own and they have very little support even harder if their benefits are cut or and stopped.
• People are in risk of losing their homes while their benefits are cut or stopped.
• The government has been known to cut and stop people's’ money with or without a reason just to save money.
• Altos and DWP have signed people off fit for work when people haven’t been fit for work and also without support.
• Just to let you know that not all people lose their lives over this.
• As strange it sounds most people lose their lives because the stress is just far too much.
. Anxiety and Depression is more of serious health problems than that what it looks like and the stress of everyday life is to blame for it.
Today.
• Here’s my website address to study the handouts to today’s session or and anything else you may find useful to learn off my website sararevealed.blogspot.com/
• Here is my email address sarajgorman@gmail.com
• ATOS KILLERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3mGZZ4TmEGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3mGZZ4TmEGA
• Please tell me at least three things you have learned to today or email me to feedback.
• Please enjoy any other session you may have today.
• Please have a safe journey home.
• Bye for now.
Handout2
As for personal budgets here’s exercise for you.
· Remember what I said about checking what information is in and out of date.
· Check the updates with the benefit system online 2015 – 2016.
· On the some reports they may have at least rough budgets what people are getting different benefits.
· Check up what the difference in food prices in shops by where you live and even online.
· Which is the cheapest healthy food or unhealthy food, is it affordable to what people are getting on benefits when they have bills, even council taxi to pay, support worker/carer and etc to pay?
Example of proof if your patient is in any health and safety risk by services or force into situations not in their limits or and needs.
The best job you can do guys is keep an eye on their health the best you can. If they are going through anything that affects their health or a service or even the GPs isn’t giving them the help they need and their health and safety is at risk you need to put something in writing for proof if your management lets you.
Limits of what we can do.
For example: if they are forced into work they can’t manage without support. As for employment that doesn’t affect a person’s disability and health problem, unless we can’t move and can’t do anything for ourselves at all there’s no reasons for not choosing work that doesn’t affect our disabilities and health problems. Some of us have physical disabilities and others have mental disabilities, some like me have a bit of both.
Disability, health problems and work.
I wouldn’t be very good with physical and Manual work but I will be alright with say office work and teaching like I am doing now. Along as long as we are within our limits and we have the right support then we shouldn’t be a danger to ourselves and others.
Health.
Most GP surgeries do health checks and others don’t but even ones that do don’t necessary what you call full health checkups, which can vary. Bear in mind that it’s getting with the talk of NHS going private which is hard with a lot of people who are not on much money but it’s twice as worrying and probably harder for people who are vulnerable such people with disabilities and health problems. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-34186624
For example: I was even finding them checking my weight and not telling me what it is, whether or not I need to anything about it or not. Mind you most people with disabilities and health problems say that the shop just can get they can only afford unhealthy but that can vary so much to the person’s needs and how far they can travel to get to a shop that sells healthy food to a price they can afford.
Everyone who suffers from for example Anxiety and Depression the way they cope with it is different and how it affects them is different. Some people can go from not having any get up and go to needing to always having something on in their lives others are one or other. For me I go both ways.
Myself for example: I don’t only love my job but it gives me something to look forward to and not only something to do. I am a very unhappy person if I don’t have anything to do but do have times I can’t bothered with much either, that mostly when I have times things are bothering me.
Those of you who have read my website before may have read me saying that Anxiety and Depression is a feeling of mood and sadness whether have a reason to or not. For me to have something positive in my life can stop from taking the negative that’s inside me out on others.
I have had my fair share down points when I was very young where now I think my word why did I let them bother me so much?
When I was twenty I took an overdose of my epilepsy tablets because I was force to carry taking them when I wasn’t even having seizures.
After I had cancer when I was twenty – three I nearly climbed out the window while I was going through radiography because I was so fed up of been stuck at home.
1997 I had a breakdown over a broken relationship I thought was very serious. Now thank goodness means nothing to me but meant a lot to me at the time. If you read my poems a lot of them will relate that experience.
Another example of stress: has your patient got an Advocacy?
What is the difference between negotiation and advocacy?
In class, we did an exercise where we had to answer whatever it was advocacy or negotiation for a given situation. I feel this was difficult as I didn’t have all the information about the cases but I was able to understand why situations required different outcomes.
Identify when negation is more approached by negotiation rather than straightforward advocacy? Consider also if a mixture of the two to be used.
· It’s a mixture of the two when an electricity company has written to a client to say that he/she owes £250.00, they are on a very low income. The company wants the money in full in seven days. It’s the advocate’s job to find out if the client owes that amount of money. If the client owes that money the advocate should negate installments
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· A decision by the DSS to refuse a grant from the Social Fund because there is insufficient money in the local budget. This again could be a mixture of both. The advocate needs to find out if the client is entitled to the money, if any money in the budget. Negotiate a lower amount. (More money is to come from the budget.)
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· A decision is made by the local hospital to put someone on the waiting list to see a consultant. The waiting list is 12 months. (Advocacy) This again is a mixture of both. This will depend on how will the client is.
· A refusal by the council housing department to grant a tenant with rent arrears a housing transfer in order to be nearer relatives who provide care and support. This is a mixture of both again. Find out if the client owes money; try to negotiate with the council housing if they can transfer them with a training plan to pay back their arrears. At some point advocacy can only go so far.
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· It’s people like these people who don’t need to be on benefits who are making it hard for those who do.http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/britains-most-shameless-mum-cheryl-6620148#ICID=FB_mirror_main
Handout 3
Work and benefit awareness.
Different people have different disabilities and health problems can vary so therefore it can on what benefits they are on, what disabilities and health problems they have what work they do and how often they work, this needs to be looked into more properly.
Like I have said on other reports on this website if people are in a job they can manage, they have the knowledge of and they are more likely to be safe less support they are likely to need. Whether they can work full time or part time should be depending on the disabilities and health problems. For example with some peoples’ health problems some people may need a sleep in the afternoon.
Saying there’s no reason for people with disabilities and health problems to do not anything at all unless their disabilities and problems affect them from moving and they need a lot of care, they are in real severe shocking pain or and very seriously ill.
If necessary more awareness needs to be raised to employers about medications because of the side – effects they can cause people and health and safety reasons too. Some medications are not necessary all could affect most peoples’ to do their job, therefore it could be possible for employers to provide the support. This is could depend on how severe the side – effects of the medications are.
Hand 4. The benefit cuts.
This has become a worried because it’s costing Britain a lot of money but then not because a lot of places that help and support people with disabilities, health problems and the elderly the government seem to make cuts on, which is more of a worry that these people are getting either very little help or no help at all.
I have a huge concern on what people with disabilities, health problems and the elderly are going through with the cuts this day and age. The benefit cuts seem to have a huge affect on the lives of people with disabilities and health problems.
The problem seems to be that there are too much people on the benefit system now that there are too many people who don’t have good reasons to be on benefits as well as the people who do.
Nine times out of the ten the people who want to work are the ones who have good reasons for being on the benefit system yet and a lot of the people who don’t have a good reason don’t want to work but I won’t say all. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/britains-most-shameless-mum-cheryl-6620148#ICID=FB_mirror_main
I feel it’s very wrong that the wrong people are getting punished, which are mostly the people with disabilities and health problems. It seems as if society sees vulnerable people as hard work, that we cost too much money, we are useless and helpless. It’s wrong to treat us as if we are to blame for giving ourselves disabilities and health problems in the eyes of society. We shouldn’t have been born to start with. This way society puts too much negatively into our head to make us believe we are hopeless and useless but we are not we just need the right help and support to get by in life. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-girl-mental-age-four-6630369
This report needs to be seen more than just an awareness and study but these matters should be taken up with the British government to set up a system to find out who has a good enough reason to be on benefits and who hasn’t.
Most people who have good enough reasons to be on the benefit system suffer enough in stress as it is within their own disabilities and health problems.
Throughout this year I have raised awareness to the 1st, 2ndand 3rd year students on the benefit cuts but I feel now because a lot of people with disabilities and health problems have died because in some peoples’ cases, they haven’t had any money or not enough money to feed themselves, other people have not been getting any or enough help and support to a point they have taken their own lives. Now I will be teaching this year’s first the benefit cuts awareness. Now I am teaching this year's first year.
This is why I feel the government needs to take these matters more than seriously. There needs to be a stop to this now, fair enough to save money but not to take it off those who need it most. This has become a huge risk to vulnerable lives. Anyone would think we have purposely planned to have disabilities and health problems to make life hard for others. Does anyone think we would choose to have disabilities and health problems? I certainly wouldn’t, I have learned to live with it but I don’t like it and I don’t think anyone else like myself would make that choose do.
Here are some matters that I have raised with my students which do need to be raised with the government. People who have had their benefits cuts should be having health check- ups while waiting for their appeals. We need to be checking to see whether or not the government are doing away with appeals. People hate depending on food banks. Places like DWP and Altos signing them off fit for work by forcing people into jobs they can’t manage were their health and safety is at risk without support. A lot of people suffer from such mental health problems like Anxiety and Depression and risk of taking their own lives, the stress of the benefit cuts is more risks to their health. Many people have found when they have tried to get support from a lot of services that can’t help them due to the funding, which now always seems to be the case. This even worse when people have had their benefits cut. Now the more people hear it the more they start to think it’s an excuse not to help them. The government needs to be aware of how serious these matters are affecting peoples’ lives. Everyone’s situation is different some are likely to need more support than others.
How much difference between Dyslexic and Dyspraxia?
How strange there’s not much difference between the sounds and the spellings of both words but the meanings may have less differences.
Before I compare the differences between Dyslexic and Dyspraxia, I need to do a study on Dyspraxia. In mean time may be you could be finding how much difference between Dyslexia and Dyspraxia if any.
Dyspraxia is not the easiest condition to have and it is not easy say and proves the condition, which makes it hard the person to be believed and understood. If you see someone walking unaided, it’s natural to think that person hasn’t got anything wrong with them. Anymore than that person finds it hard to prove themselves you have no prove to say what they are saying is true or not. Many years ago Health professions weren’t educated and trained to understand learning disabilities and health problems, it only been the last fifteen twenty year, a bit more or less than that research has improved. The problems is now after the improved on the research sadly the government are making cuts on the help and support so it seem as if we are slowly going back to the past. Yet we are expected to have an equal to others which we want but then with disabilities and health problems we need more support than what other people do.
A lot of people say Dyspraxia is a hidden handicap but the word handicap I personally sorry say I don’t like because people who do say that word don’t realize they making people learning disabilities and learning difficulties less equal to everyone else. Dyspraxia is a hidden learning difficulty but strangely most people can have learning disabilities linked on to learning difficulties plus health problems as well. It’s not everyone’s case.
Hidden physical learning difficulties like Dyspraxia are hard to prove because during adulthood, general society expects us to know to tie our shoe laces for example but not everyone can. Dyspraxia is most likely a hard condition to Diagnose I guess because it is a very condition to live with.
When comes down to those kind of skills it’s rather embarrassing to explain to others mainly when they can see that you don’t look disabled. It’s very embarrassing when people your own age can master certain skills better can.
It’s possible have had Dyslexia all my life, even at the age of nearly forty-six I still feel embarrassed ad ashamed for example ask someone even open a bottle or crisp packet but I will be honest to say some are easier than others to open. I found some difficulties I have overcome but not all. As strange as it sounds before and after I was born there wasn’t any education, understanding and etc about learning disabilities and health problems so you weren’t treated equal, you just got told you weren’t going get very far in life. As far as society was curtained if you weren’t coping like everyone else then tough it was like you the odd one out. Now thank goodness despite of the cutbacks in the UK, we know more than what we used to know but still have long way to go in fact learning never stops.
In the terms of balance, coordination and clumsiness is concerned children get misunderstood as naughty and adults get misunderstood as drunk yet it’s not a noticeable learning difficulty but then it is a very little is shown if any.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/151951.php
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Dyspraxia-(childhood)/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Possible cause of Dyspraxia.
Due to the time period I was born before and even after that like I said professions had very little educating and training as far as disabilities and health problems were concerned.
Therefore I will be honest to say its unknown what my disabilities and health problems, I guess for many others who were born in those time periods. Whatever I was born with I know it was caused by my Mother having been neglected at the birth due to a lack of oxygen. Whatever I have has been there all my life and it will be here for the rest my life but some things are still there others I over come which many I have done without realizing it.
I and my family think I have Dyspraxia having been born 40 odd yrs ago very little was known for me to be diagnosed at a very young age. In those days I was just classed a very clumsy child. There wasn't even any name to the condition back in those days. It's great to have children's services because hopefully they can get the support adults didn't really get as children but the funding seems to be a huge certain. It's very hard to say with Dyspraxia in the terms of adult services because most support it may be best to get in childhood but others it may not be ever too late for.
Over the years my family have had rough ideas but not completely sure. To how far things have gone the harder it is to get diagnosed so I would advice today’s parents to try and get their children diagnosed as young as possible. If people get diagnosed as younger as possible it’s possible they may be able to get the right support to a point as the years go on there could do a lot of things for their selves sooner people from say my generation did. Now the funding seems to be the problem these days whereas years ago there was very little education and training in the professions.
What I have alwayed faced is that I lack in physical strength mostly on the left hand side of my body because the left hand side of the brain was mildly damaged from birth, therefore I could have done with physic as a very young child but that didn’t happen in the 1970s and 1980s. It’s too easy to guess by the difficulties I have faced that I could have Dyspraxia I will never know for sure without a diagnose plus there doesn’t seem to be a lot adult services for these disabilities and health problems mainly the cuts are going now in Britain.
For example anything too heavy I likely to drop and I don’t very strong grip in my hands. Mind I have notice these days some things are easier to grip than others. Whatever this is its limited my life as far learning school, accessing employment, not being able to drive, not being able to have children, household tasks, I wouldn’t be able to do manual work or other kind of physical work, which therefore makes exercise swimming is the only sport I can really cope with. Things like netball in school I was never very good at noticing when the ball was coming my way plus throwing and catching the way quite a task for me.
Study case 1. Speech awareness.
Some children with dyspraxia may take longer to talk than other children. Their early speech may be very hard to understand, this is because they have certain movement difficulties in the month, throat and tongue. The condition is called Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia, which should be treated by Speech and Language therapists.
The core problems these children have coordinate difficulties. This may affect the hands, legs and body where Physical theory is needed to strengthen the muscles.
Roughly between 2004 and 2010 there has been 5-8 percent of school population with speech and language difficulties, therefore they have Development Verbal Dyspraxia. There was also other child with other forms of Dyspraxia, which mostly face coordination difficulties.
Many children can only make a small range of sounds; they may have problems pronouncing consonants and vowels. For example they may be able to say cat but not caterpillar. These children do need speech therapy. A speech problem in people with Dyspraxia is different to other speech problems possibly linked to other disabilities and health problems. It can take a lot of time and effect for them to improve their speech, many could find it hard work but they never give up. Very often those who find it hard to learn tend to be more keen workers than most of those who find it easy to learn and quickly. Even most parents find it hard to understand what their children are trying to say.
1. Study references such as online or even books about Development Verbal Dyspraxia.
2. Study forms of communication for people with Development Verbal Dyspraxia.
3. Find out what form of easy read information is easy read for people with Dyspraxia including Development Verbal Dyspraxia.
4. Find out what kind of support all forms of Dyspraxia needs.
Study case 2 what is a learning disability and a learning difficultly?
People should be aware now for at least the past 15 to 20 years or slightly more of disabilities and health problems. They should except anything from us because we didn’t become the way is on purpose. We should the same rights and responsibilities as other people. We don’t except to get away with what others can’t because we have disabilities and health problems all the same the fact that have disabilities and health problems should be taken into account.
Therefore society should accept us to be slower than other people, which is what a learning disability and learning difficulty is. We shouldn’t be treated and punished as if we have chosen to be the way we are on purpose just to give society hard work. It feels as if others think we enjoy being we are so we can be treat difficult to others, which we don’t. I know that this shouldn’t be judged either when there are plenty out there with nothing wrong with them pretending that they are. This is what people who really do have disabilities and health problems get the punishment and stress for, which the benefit system is a fine example of that.
1. Research some knowledge on the history of learning disabilities and health problems email me on sarajgorman@gmail.com to tell what you have learned.
2. How can we improve the past to make a better future?
3. Find things out about the benefit system and how people who have reasons to be on it take the stick of those who don’t need to be on it but are because they don’t want to work.
4. Most disabled want to work, learn about employment for disabled people and the support that is and isn’t out, including rules, laws, health, safety, discrimination act and etc.
5. What jobs can people with Dyspraxia and other disabilities and problems can and can’t manage with and without support.
Study case 3. My case.
People with disabilities and health problems face bullying mostly because others don’t always understand in the way we do. Strangely I only went to one main stream school all the others were special schools yet I faced bullying in all my schools. Very often not that I was perfect myself because nobody is but when it comes to learning it’s as if many children tend to complete with each other. Either one person has a lot of difficulty learning or someone else tends to know too much as far as a bully is concerned, which can be where bullying can set in because that person is strangely jealous of his or her victim one way or the other.
Over the years so much has changed in the sense of punishment for example I remember getting the ruler over my hands in front of the children because I got my times tables wrong therefore when it came to break time that encouraged me to face because having been a slow learner. Now the kids are punishing the teacher and even many teachers have lost their lives through children. Therefore there never seems to be a balance as far as learning right from wrong is concerned.
I was never good at any sport other than swimming and maths was very weak and still is.
I was classed as thick, stupid and lazy as far as the children were concerned back then but little they know I have caught up through adult life.
1 There many famous and talented people with disabilities and health problems that didn’t do well in school days but caught up in adult life maybe you can research and email me what you find out.
There many famous and talented people with disabilities and health problems that didn’t do well in school days but caught up in adult life maybe you can research and email me what you find out. Sarajgorman@gmail.com
2. Sadly many people with disabilities and health problems never had their talent notice when they were alive who were they?
4. Try to find out about the positive and negative side of famous people with disabilities and health problems for example how many of those faced bullying in school then ended up talented?
Case 4 Learning Difficulty and gripping case.
Dyspraxia is not a condition you grow out of but you overcome. For example I was 20 before I managed to tie my shoe laces but I know I wouldn’t ever able to drive. I have had problems opening cans but in the end I discovered I could manage the old fashioned tin openers better than the other tin openers strangely. I normally have no problems with changers to my mobile phones or the plug sockets but stranger since I have had my new phone, which I put the changer into the plug socket by my computer I can’t get the changer out.
1. Find about gripping aids for people with Dyspraxia!
2. Find out how some things like bottles, plugs and etc are easier to grip than others!
3. What other physical skills do most people with most forms of Dyspraxia have?
4. Please email me on what you have learned thank you sarajgorman@gmail.com I will feedback to you by email too.
Babies and children can be slow at learning these skills.
· Crawling
· Walking
· Possibly talking
· Feeding gripping tools and in risk of breaking such things as cups and plates.
· Most children find it hard to copy from the blackboard.
· Follow instructions and directions can also be hard. From left to right and straight on for example.
· Walking up and down steps. ( Finding it to hard balance
And coordination problems.)
· They may have problems with speech and language.
· They may have problems with memory long or short term.
Dyslexia Awareness.
What is Dyslexia?
People with Dyslexia can read and write. There just certain words we struggle to read and certain words we struggle to spell different. Different people struggle with different kind of words in different ways. Also lot of people struggle to pronounce different words in different ways.
A lot of people find it hard to concentrate and read very small print on white paper to a lot of people with Dyslexia it’s as if words are jumping off the page.
Most people like me find it easy to read bright coloured writing off light coloured paper.
Most of us miss words out sentences, miss information out of pieces of writing, replete ourselves because we can easy forgot we have already written or said something, put in too much information or and too many words. We can find it hard what to put on paper and how to put it on paper. Every person who is Dyslexia can vary but with most people every time they try read, write and spell that can vary as well. For some of us it can depend what we are doing and why we are doing it for.
Way back in history Dyslexia was known as word blind, which means for example when we proof read our work we notice some things we have missed out and mistakes we have made but not all. Every time and person can vary that doesn’t mean to say they are or are not Dyslexic. Again it can depend what the person is doing and why.
• Dyslexia can slow peoples’ ability down!
• Dyslexic people can face problems with basic skills like reading, writing, spelling and maths.
• Different people can face different problems in different ways.
• Dyslexia doesn’t make people unable to learn or do anything.
• People with Dyslexia just need the right support.
• There are lots of creative and famous people who are Dyslexic.
Accessible information you may use for someone who is Dyslexic.
The accessible information guidelines are not only there to support people with Dyslexia but other disabilities and health problems too. The guidelines will help people in different ways but they won’t always help everyone. I will underline the guidelines of what could be likely to support most people with Dyslexia.
• People with disabilities understand it’s not always easy for people to make information accessible for us due to cuts in funding and materials different places have got.
• All the same it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be asked what is accessible to us so you are aware of how you can make information accessible if or, and, when, what you can.
• Ask people what is easy read to them!
• Ask people with learning disabilities how we would like our information done!
• Does the person need larger print?
• Do some people like most their information in bold?
• Would people like their information in a different way?
• Use words that we use all the time.
• Write in short word and clear short sentences.
• Just have one idea in each sentence.
• This means shorting words or a few letters.
• Using less words
• You may need to look in a thesaurus to find short words for long we word.
• People with disabilities understand there are some short words can't always be found for longs words, they may need to understand what the information is about if you can’t make it easy read for them.
• Most people may not be able read or and understand long words that you can't find for short words.
• Use one active verb for eg; John loves Mary not Mary is loved by John.
• Think about key points that can be made easier for the person!
• Don't use words that only specialist would understand or acronyms.
• Write words that we use all the time.
Font.
• Ask the person how they would like the information?
• What font would they like?
• What size fond would they like?
• Bold, underline, italics and or etc.
• Some may want their information written in Comic San, Ariel, or by FS Mencap.
• Use bold for highlighting words.
• Use size 14 text.
• Titles and headings size 16 for bold.
• Comic San, Ariel or by FS Mencap.
• Italics and block capitals change the shape of words and make them hard to read.
• Instructions and directions in bullet points or for eg; ABC 123.
• No jargon and no words jumping off the page, which means large print for it to be clear enough for people to read and understand.
• Jumping from one topic to the other makes it harder for you to write and us to read.
• Something clear and well planned with all key point information.
• Easy read works for everyone but different people see easy read different in different ways.
• This could mean different coloured writing on different coloured paper.
• Different coloured writing on different coloured paper.
• Would they like colours would like for eg; some people may like pink purple writing on pink paper.
• Ask people kind of colours they would like!
Codes and colours.
• If you are writing a lot of pages use colour codes.
• Use clear coloured paper.
• Green is not a good colour to use.
• Words in white (reversed out text) on coloured back ground can be harder to reader.
• Some people might need things to be printed onto coloured paper.
• Remember not everyone manages with colour so ask them first.
• Use full stops.
• Try not to use other punctuation.
• Use bullet points.
• Do not use abbreviations for eg; do not don't.
• One subject on page.
• If you have to use more than each page with more about then whenever the subject is.
• Use page numbers.
• Avoid columns.
• It's easier to read across the page.
• Make sure there is plenty of space on the forms for people to fill in.
One subject on page.
• If you have to use more than each page with more whenever the subject is.
• Use page numbers.
• Avoid columns.
• Using photographs by asking permission off different places first.
• Photographs should be nouns people.
• Places and objects.
• Writing on the right hand side.
• It could be different if you are writing in another language.
• Do not float text on top or across the page.
Useful tips.
• Show pictures of a clock with the right time you may want to see a person on whatever for eg; if you can.
• Some people find cartoon pictures childish.
• Explain how to find a place in words as well as pictures.
• Some people find a pretty poster on a leaf it easy to understand.
• Some may like shiny paper others may not.
• Some people make it hard to see words and picture.
• Some people find an A5 notepad or book easier to hold rather than following lots of sheets.
Information on CD and DVD.
• Make information available on DVD or CD
• Make information easier for people to find.
• Use a buddy system where people have somewhere to go through information with them or ask questions.
• Some may need plenty of notice before their appointment is due mainly if they have a lot of other things to think about with disabilities and health problems on top of that.
• Sent information at least 4 weeks before appointment or meeting people may need or and want to go to.
• This will give people time to get help if they want or and need it.
• This also may help most people understand the information.
• Contact WWW.officefordisability.gov.uk accessibity@mencap.org.uk 0209 696 5551 check if those contact details are still in use if not find out if anything is in place of them and what!
• If you want to produce all or part of this guide please talk to us.
Affects of Dyslexia.
• Too much to think about all at once can cause either.
• To think too much.
• Not able to think at all.
• Information be missed out or too much done.
• Things can be the wrong way round but the right information.
• A lot to be done in such little time can be too much.
• Is there anyone who has Dyslexia who would like to talk about it?
Dyslexic Aids.
• Coloured layouts
• Highlight pens
• Fober castell grip 2011 propelling pencils.
• Easy read information.
Has anyone got any questions?
Feedback from last year’s first year on the benefit cuts awareness session.
I am a trainee visiting literature so I can learn off the students what they want to learn and how they want me to teach them as much as they learn of me.
I would also like this year’s first year to learn from this feedback of the sessions of what I did with last year’s first and second year plus last year’s 3rd year. Hopefully during in your three years of being at the University I will be doing some work around the benefit cuts with you so this study is to prepare for whenever that time comes.
In future each time I do a session off each class I will write up the feedback on here for other classes to learn for other sessions not only what you may have with me but other Literature too such as Lynne, Steve and Mick over all topics.
Benefit cuts awareness Feedback.
I really emphasised with what Sara was saying. I could see that the benefit system doesn’t seem to understand nor care about people with LD.
It was good that Sara highlighted the emotional, physical and psychological problems facing people with LD. It is bad that the Government, who are meant to be looking after the people, have put laws and systems in place that leave people with LD in such distress.
People with LD can experience anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, illness, lose their homes, be without money for long periods of time, due to their benefits being stopped or assessed.
It was good that Sara highlighted the emotional, physical and psychological problems facing people with LD. It is bad that the Government, who are meant to be looking after the people, have put laws and systems in place that leave people with LD in such distress.
People with LD can experience anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, illness, lose their homes, be without money for long periods of time, due to their benefits being stopped or assessed.
People with LD need as much help as possible when it comes to benefits. And as future LD nurses, we will be aware of their plight and in a position to help with applications, as advocates, and with calming their fears.
At this particular moment in time it is all about awareness, understanding, and empathy. If a LD nurse is aware of the issues then we will be in a better position to help people with LD who is in this situation.
Feedback from the session I did for the students a couple of Thursdays ago.
Last year’s 2nd year Student's feedback from the Benefit cuts awareness session Monday 11th May 2015 University Of Wolverhampton Walsall Campus.
Benefit cuts:
· Services cuts / already some services are closed
· Limited / no respite services for families
· Increased crime figures due to cuts?
· Lack of support in the home people are just left to cope alone because of lack of funding
· Mental health problems increasing
· Isolation / decreased socialization lack of activities
· Increased immobility = health issues
· Government plans to be aware of these so as to help service users
· Community after hospitals closed but there is ever decreasing support available
· Increased likelihood of not getting roles due to CV changes or limited chances
· Job centres not always in line with work areas – availability of posts etc
· Increase in homelessness
· Poverty
· Suitable job – not just any job
· Direct payments = effects on people
· Abuse of the vulnerable
· Increase in protests / strikes?
· Lord Willis Raising the bar report http://hee.nhs.uk/wp-content/blogs.dir/321/files/2015/03/2348-Shape-of-caring-review-FINAL.pdf
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