Post graduate certificate course on adults with learning disabilities who have significant and complex needs : Module 6 : people with profound and multiple disabilities

Aims to enable the student, upon completion of the module, to: express a clear view of their own use of terminology with respect to describing individuals with profound and multiple learning difficulties; understand the relevance of developmental psychology in assessing people with profound and multiple learning difficulties; understand the principal approaches to assessment of people with profound and multiple learning difficulties; identify the principal issues with respect to medical vulnerability and the maintenance of good health; identify the barriers to accessing good quality health care; distinguish between personal and intimate care and understand the principal issues involved in providing high quality care; identify the factors which lead to good quality residential and day service provision; and understand the needs of family and professional-family relationships.