Course: Improving Health Assessments for People with an Intellectual Disability

A key part of embracing reasonable adjustment is to ensure that the patient is the focus of health care delivery. Developing a relationship with the patient and delivering care through …

In this video, we reviewed and recapped what we have learned throughout the course and brought it into a clinical situation. Bringing it all together, this video demonstrates the techniques …

It is important for healthcare professionals to follow up with people once the health appointment or consultation is complete. To ensure that there is equity and accessibility for someone with …

Welcome back for Week 3 of the course. In the video above, Eilish spoke about the importance of embracing reasonable adjustment, and mentioned the following practical resources in the video. …

Well done for completing the Improving Health Assessments for People with an Intellectual Disability course! We hope you have enjoyed this short course and that it encourages you to embrace …

An important practice that you can do to include reasonable adjustment during health assessments is to create Easy Read materials. Let’s recap on the eight strategies for creating your own …

A key part of a health assessment, after you have designed your Easy Read materials, is to consider how you can gain consent from a patient with an intellectual disability. …

This video from a UK organization, Change, gives some great examples from people with an intellectual disability on how to improve communication with them. After watching the video: Read through …

In the previous steps, we explored the experience of the person with an intellectual disability in the health assessment. Consider the following fictional scenario and answer the questions below. James, …

As we have seen during Week 1, how people with intellectual disabilities experience health services can be very different to their non-disabled peers. While they are not alone in experiencing …

Good communication is essential for healthcare practice. It ensures the person is kept central to all decisions and empowers the individual by including their perspective in conversations. Effective communication should …

Another important means of communication for enhancing the health of people with an intellectual disability is through health promotion. As we have learned in Week 1, people with intellectual disabilities …

As we have seen in this video, one of the first actions that creates communication challenges in healthcare assessments is failure to develop rapport with a person with an intellectual …

In the previous step, we have seen the ways in which language can either act as an aid to understanding or can become a confusing barrier for the person with …

Effective communication is key to building relationships with a person with an intellectual disability. It is essential in maintaining positive encounters. Take some time to review these guidelines for enabling …