This information and these resources are relevant and appropriate for parents and carers of and children and young people with a Learning Disability.

They focus on explaining and reinforcing the current guidelines on social distancing and include learning and activity suggestions and opportunities that may be helpful and have a well-being focus. 

Updates will be added if and when suitable and helpful resources are identified. 

Page last modified: 08/04/20

Some of the changes may particularly impact and affect those with learning disabilities.

You can find out more on the Learning Disability England website.

Mencap Easy Read - Coronavirus

Mencap has shared this Easy Read information about Coronavirus to help explain this is a new type of illness that spreads easily and that a number of people in the UK have got it. It also has simple visual explainers of what steps to take to help limit it's spread. 

Source of resource: mencap.org.uk/Information-about-Coronavirus.pdf

Down Syndrome - Easy Read guide to Coronavirus 

(information - downloadable resource)

The Down’s Syndrome Association provides information and support on all aspects of
living with Down’s syndrome. This is their Easy Read guide on Coronavirus. 

Down Syndrome - Easy Read guide to Coronavirus 

Source of resource: 

Intergrated Learing Disabilities - adults service 

If you would like to talk to us, call the Hackney Integrated Learning Disability
team:

Phone: 0208 356 7444 (Open Monday to Friday 9am-5pm)

Or if you need to speak to someone outside of those times, you can call the Out of Hours social care team:

Phone: 020 8356 2300 (After 5pm and at weekends and bank holidays)

Intergrated Learning Disabilities Team - Who can help?

Further advice and activity ideas from Bild

As the coronavirus pandemic has put the health and social care system under greater pressure everyone is encouraged to support people to stay as safe as possible. This could mean people’s quality of life is affected in the short term.

Bild have produce two very good guides. One for young people and adults with Learning Disability. The second resource guide is for those supporting them including families. These are very thorough guides that build on the initial information about the virus. They are helpfully broken down into relevant chapters with appropriate visuals. They even helpfully explain what might happen if you are out and get stopped by the police.

 www.bild.org.uk/Coronavirus-resources-for-use-with-people-with-learning-disabilities

www.bild.org.uk/Coronavirus-resources-for-use-by-families

Resource source: https://www.bild.org.uk/covid-19/

The Sensory Project

The Sensory Project has provided helpful fun learning activity resources to do when staying safe and staying home during the crisis. They are grouped into resources aimed at people with additional needs and those aimed at students who attend mainstream schools.

Hospital Health Passports

We very much hope all our young people stay safe and well throughout this crisis. However if you do have to attend hospital for appointments not related to Covid-19 or after the pandemic is over a Health Passport is still a useful document to have ready and would be very helpful should someone with a Learning Disability or autism become ill.

A healthcare passport provides information about the person and their health needs, how they like to communicate and other preferences. Hospitals know about and use health passports already to understand patients’ needs better so may ask if you have one.

If you don’t have one already and think this would be useful, or you do but think it may need to be updated, you can download and complete one here.

Homerton-Health-Passport-2020

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