Parents often struggle to get the right support for their disabled children. To help with this, Cerebra have developed an accessing public services toolkit to support disabled people, families and carers who are encountering difficulties with statutory agencies. Derek Tilley from Cerebra explains how the toolkit can “help unpick commonly experienced problems and to offer … Continued
Earlier this year the Welsh Government declared a climate emergency in Wales, a move supported by Learning Disability Wales. Ahead of this week’s Global Climate Strike, Grace Krause, policy officer for Learning Disability Wales, raises a major concern that goes largely unspoken in conversations around climate change – how the crisis is expected to have … Continued
As part of our commitment to increasing people with a learning disability’s access to high quality accessible information, Learning Disability Wales is making our dictionary of easy read definitions free to everyone that produces easy read information. Our dictionary of easy read definitions is a crucial resource that our Easy Read Wales team have built … Continued
Following on from today’s BBC Breakfast news piece on the right to relationships for people with a learning disability, Grace Krause, Policy Officer at Learning Disability Wales explores why it is hard for people to have relationships. Grace details the work we are doing in Learning Disability Wales and calls for more training of support … Continued
We have been delighted to welcome five new members of staff to the Learning Disability Wales team recently. Over the past few weeks we have been introducing our new staff and asking them how their roles will help us to create a Wales that values and includes every child, young person and adult with a … Continued
Over the past few weeks we have been introducing the five new members of staff who have recently joined Learning Disability Wales. Today we introduce Rebecca Chan, our new Accessible Information Officer, who will be working on our expanded Easy Read Wales team. “I am very excited to join Learning Disability Wales as an Accessible … Continued
We recently introduced Lyndsey Richards as one of five new members of staff. We are pleased to introduce another new member of staff, Angela Kenvyn, who will be managing the national Engage to Change employment project. Angela will be co-ordinating the Engage to Change partnership and managing delivery of the project across Wales. Angela has … Continued
We are delighted to welcome five new members of staff to the Learning Disability Wales team. Lyndsey Richards is our new Projects Manager, and will be managing our work with Gig Buddies, parents with a learning disability, and the Welsh Youth Parliament, as well as developing new projects. Lyndsey joins us following a career spanning … Continued
We are excited to welcome five new members of staff to our team at Learning Disability Wales. Over the next few weeks we will be introducing each new member of staff. Zoe Richards, our Acting Chief Executive, explains how our newly expanded team will have a significant impact on our work, and how we engage … Continued
When Sophie first moved into a mirus house in 2017 she was very shy and reserved. Sophie didn’t have much confidence and was fearful to go out by herself. Through skills teaching and confidence building Sophie started off small by going to the shop by herself using the maps facility on her smartphone. Sophie then … Continued
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