Sunday 7 May 2017

User friendly 2017.

Task one.

Write up an set of instructions that a person may have to follow or do things in some kind of order, what do they do first, second and so on?

How would you make the information accessible to them?

The could be making a paper airplane, changing a light bulb, wiring a plug, putting on a duvet, making a hot drink, even boiling an egg.

Task two.

Find websites to study the history of disabilities and health problems, what has changed from the past to today?

What still needs to get better but what is better than it used to be?

 Task three.

What is communication?

Name forms of communication!

Task four.

How can you support memory problems?
By studying websites and even books, find out what others disabilities and health problems can cause problems other than the ones I have listed on this post!

Task five. 

How can you make learning accessible for people with disabilities and health problems to learn? Study from the guidelines on Sara revealed in 2017 and 16 post and maybe other references too.

Task six.

  • How would you make an assessment accessible?
  • How does disabilities and health problems affect people's everyday skills?
  • Look on WWW.mencap.org.uk and User-friendly part 3 on Sara revealed 2016 post.
https://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/assessment-training-handout.html
For example; can the person make a hot drink, with support, without support or not at all?

This could mean.
  • Heating a hot snack.
  • Preparing a cold snack.
  • Cooking or and heat a hot meal.
  • Wash up.
  • Dry up.
  • Use the washing machine
  • Dy clothes
  • Iron clothes
  • Hover
  • Dust 
  • Shop
  • Washing
  • Bathing
  • Showering
  • Washing hair
  • Brushing hair
  • Brushing teeth
  • Cutting fingernails
  • Cutting toenails
Task 7. Google these.

  1. What is Personal care?
  2. What is everyday living skills?
  3. What is PCP Person Centred Planning?
  4.  What is Valuing people Now? 


Listening Skills.


People on answer phones can talk too fast for people with disabilities and health problems to keep up with they are saying for example; press this for that and that for this. This can be furstaighting when the person needs to make an important, something needs to be sorted quickly and no one is there dealing with it with them right away.

Without being racist most people with disabilities and health problems don't understand foreign languages, this can be hard when the called is unexpected and unknown whether the calls are important to us or not.


Disabilities and health problems are likely to slow down a person's ability and even give them memory problems such as. 

Causes of memory problems.


  • Dyslexia
  • Dyspraxia
  • Dimension
  • Side effects from most medications
  • Epilepsy

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