...Katie Brooker; Jessica Hill Purpose This paper aims to discuss the importance of delivering high-quality education to allied health and fitness professionals around physical activity for people with intellectual disabilities. Design/methodology/approach The clinical training and experience...

... of evaluating positive behaviour support (PBS) training and key issues relating to this. This provides a springboard from which researchers/practitioners may consider these issues when designing and evaluating PBS training courses. Findings Three main issues are explored: the necessary diversity and breadth...

... they will respond and relate to potential colleagues and the people they will support. What they say is not necessarily what they will do. Staff practice Intellectual and developmental disability Staff development Training Intuitive and rational thinking Daniel Kahneman Kahneman’s work...

.... Firsthand accounts suggest the key features of capable environments are communication, valuing families and developing a valued, caring, well-trained workforce. Lived experience in workforce training and peer-support to individuals offer great potential to transform outcomes. Originality/value...

... improved substantially following training. The coaching method was rated positively by participants and family members. Originality/value Video-modelling technology can be used effectively to provide an efficient, individualized and acceptable method of coaching for care staff. All participants...

... the communication of adults with learning disabilities. Combining instructional training with in situ coaching appears to provide the most effective approach. Bringing about change within the dynamic context of communication is challenging and may benefit from an open, investigative design. Originality...

...Kunden Patel; Laura Roche; Nicola Coward; Jacqueline Meek; Celia Harding Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an evaluation of a programme of training and support provided to staff, which aimed to encourage supported communication environments for people with learning disabilities...

...Greg Stocks; Sean Slater Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of a six-and-a-half day, Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) informed training course on staff’s self-efficacy and outcome expectations of managing challenging behaviour (CB). Training programmes for other non...

... group of the community. Dr Stuart Wark can be contacted at: swark5@une.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Access Support worker Training Ageing Intellectual disability Learning disability The increasing life expectancy of people with a learning [1] disability...

... management systems that promote contact with ordinary citizens and a culture of community participation through training and mentoring support staff. Originality/value Whilst most support staff willingly recount stories that illustrate the complexity of providing 1:1 support in the community, they have...

...Jo Kidd Purpose This paper seeks to provide a commentary on the previous paper in this issue “Human rights training: impact on attitudes and knowledge”. Design/methodology/approach This commentary poses the question as to whether human rights training can have an effect on attitudes towards...