Communication with Disabled Young People Training

This course explores listening to and communicating with young people about their everyday experiences focusing on times when they feel unsafe or when plans for their care are being made.

We will look at the process of communication, relationships and challenges faced by workers as well as the roles and responsibilities of professionals, the dynamics and power inherent in communication with young people and the methods and approaches to direct work.

Developing an understanding of the young person’s needs and impairments, you will look at how participation can be promoted at all stages of work with young people and families.

Who is this course for?

This course is for anyone who works with young people with a disability in any organisation, business or charity and wants to improve their ability to communicate and capture the voice of the young people they’re working with.

This could include:

• Those working with teens and young people up to 25
• Police and criminal justice sectors
• Education (both mainstream and special education)
• Safeguarding leads
• Health and social care
• Mental health
• Adults workers who need to understand safeguarding young people
• Those working in advocacy organisations

Aims of the Communication with Disabled Young People course

• Raise awareness of communication and successful approaches to supporting young people with communication difficulties.
• Reflect on your own role in encouraging successful communication.
• Cover all aspects of communication including verbal and non-verbal, listening and understanding, and social use of communication.
• Provide guidance on assessing communication needs and accessing appropriate additional support and advice.
• Introduce a range of useful communication strategies, tailored to the needs of participants relevant to their daily working practice.

The Communication with Disabled Young People course will explore the following areas:

• Models of communication
  Developing models of communication relevant to the young people they support.
• Communication needs
  Understanding the communication needs of the young people they support in terms of both understanding and communicating with others.
• Promoting positive communication
  Understand the importance of their role in promoting positive communication.
• Communication tools and strategies
  Recognise a range of communication tools and strategies used with young people with communication difficulties which are relevant to those they support.
• Support and help
  Know when they need further help with communication, and where and how to get that support
• Practical communication ideas
  Gain practical ideas for positive communication, which can be integrated into their daily home and work environments.