Introduction to learning difficulties and disabilities - an activity-led guide for nextstep advisers. Essential information and advice on working with disabled learners. It’s designed to inform your careers guidance by helping you understand how a learner can manage their disability in work, education and training. It also tells you how you and your centre can comply with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).

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A guide developed by the Centre for Guidance Studies (CeGS) for Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) Practitioners working with clients who have mental health issues.

The guide is in PDF format and there are versions for the adviser, the manager and the client. The client's guide is also downloadable as a word document to enable interaction on screen. Section 15 of the adviser and manager's guides are also downloadable as word documents to enable interaction on screen.

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A guide supporting people with learning difficulties to make the transition from vocational education and training into employment. An information sheet for people with learning difficulties. LSC/NIACE pdf file download available from NIACE website, free of charge.

www.niace.org.uk/research/HDE/Documents/Learners.pdf (691 KB)

2008

Able To Succeed is a publication that looks at disabilities, health and job choice. For organisations and professionals who provide careers advice and information to clients with common health conditions. Provides information on eleven common health conditions: Diabetes Mellitus, Epilepsy, Hearing Impairment, Limited Manual Dexterity, Migraine, Limited Physical Mobility, Respiratory Conditions, Skin Conditions, Speech Impairment, Visual Impairment and Impaired Colour Vision. Cascaid.

Making it Work explores the experiences and strategies for success of supported employees, employers, colleagues and job coaches.The report is unusual in focusing primarily on the perspectives of people with learning difficulties themselves, and also because the research was carried out in collaboration with members of the self-advocate group, People First Wales. It identifies examples of good practice and suggests how the service can be developed and improved. Pavilion Publishing (Brighton) Ltd

Comprises 155 leaflets, describing in clear, simple terms a wide range of jobs open to students with few or no qualifications. If I Were ...is also an ideal resource to use with students with moderate learning difficulties. Each leaflet looks at: skills and the qualities required for a particular job, the availability of the work, the training required, and how to find a job. Each leaflet includes a simple introduction to labour market trends and a lively profile of someone doing a typical job. Lifetime Careers Publishing Ltd (order through Orca Book Services)

A series of six titles designed to help professionals in education motivate and encourage students who are disengaged from learning. Each book provides a concise and practical guide to topics that are of particular concern.(£30.00 for the set of six. Individual titles can be ordered separately). Lifetime Careers Publishing Ltd

Based on the findings of SKILL’s three-year Aasha action research project working with over 60 young people and their families in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets in London.The publication includes an analysis of the key issues identified during the project, direct quotations from the young people and families involved in the project, and recommendations for policymakers and practitioners. SKILL: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities

This resource pack is one of the outcomes of a three-year research project undertaken by SKILL and the University of Cambridge.The pack is an invaluable guide for all staff in different types of organisations working or wishing to work with people with profound and complex learning difficulties during periods of transition.The pack includes:a staff development guide (with video),a guide to support managers, a briefing paper for policymakers, a literature review, and a quality of life manual for monitoring review and evaluation. SKILL: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities

This book helps professionals become more aware of what mental health difficulties are and what issues may be particularly relevant to people with mental health difficulties who enter education or training. SKILL: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities

This new training resource offers a simple, all in one package for learning providers to run a 2 hour staff training session exploring the implications of the Disability Discrimination Act Part 4. The set features a fictional court case taken under the DDA Part 4 and includes notes for training facilitators. LSC funded education providers in England may be eligible for a free copy from the LSC and should contact their local Learning and Skills Council. Other organisations can purchase a copy via SKILL: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities. DVD and CD ROM

The interactive approach to jobs with few or no qualifications. A multi-media CD using attractive presentation, simple text, video and sound to explore the information and job titles in If I Were... careers leaflet series. If I Were Plus! enables students to find information in a clear and stimulating way. They can look for specific jobs or, by answering a few simple questions get job suggestions from the database. Lifetime Careers Publishing Ltd

Useful websites

For a more detailed list visit the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities website www.learningdisabilities.org.uk (opens in new window) which provides links to organisations covering many disabilities and syndromes.

www.cae.org.uk
The Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) is an information provider and a forum for collaborative dialogue between providers and users on how the built environment can best be made or modified to achieve inclusion by design. Services include information, training and consultancy.

Disability Alliance: Breaking the Link between Disability and Poverty

www.disabilitynow.org.uk
Helpline 01787 882111
Talking Newspapers Enterprises Ltd
Newspaper for and about disability issues. Website provides a selection of stories from the newspaper and links to a number of websites of organisations involved with disability including those dealing with employment and education. There is also a telephone helpline available (one evening and one afternoon a week). Monthly publication with mid-monthly supplement.

Disability Now ISSN: 0958-4676 Tabloid size newspaper, online (partial contents) and telephone helpline information service.

Newspaper also available on cassette, disk or in an email newspaper £18·00 individual, £28·00 corporate, free to anyone in receipt of state benefits, online free.

Equality and Human Rights Commission

www.equalityhumanrights.com
The Equality and Human Rights Commission champions equality and human rights for all, working to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequality, protect human rights and to build good relations, ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to participate in society.

Dyslexia Action

www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk (opens in new window)
Dyslexia Action is a national charity and the UK's leading provider of services and support for people with dyslexia and literacy difficulties.

Specialists in assessment and tuition for children and adults.The UK's largest supplier of teacher training courses to specialise in dyslexia. They also have a workplace consultation service to address the implications of dyslexia at work. Services are available from 26 centres around the country.

MENCAP

www.mencap.org.uk (opens in new window)
MENCAP works with people with a learning disability, and their families and carers. Mencap’s Education and Employment Business Unit offers education and employment services that enable people with a learning disability to achieve their goals.This includes MENCAP’s Pathway which finds people opportunities ranging from work experience to full-time employment.

MIND

www.mind.org.uk (opens in new window)
MIND is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales .It works to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress.The organisation produces a wide range of leaflets and more substantial publications on specific and generic issues of mental well-being.

National Autistic Society (NAS)

www.nas.org.uk (opens in new window)
The society exists to champion the rights and interests of all people with autism and to ensure that they and their families receive quality services appropriate to their needs. This site includes information about autism and Asperger Syndrome, and about support and services available in the UK.

National Register of Access Consultants

www.nrac.org.uk (opens in new window)
This is a national register of approved access consultants.The database provides details of suitably qualified access consultants that organisations can use to conduct audits and to advise on improvements.

Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation

www.radar.org.uk (opens in new window)
The mission of the Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation (RADAR) is to enable disabled people and disability organisations to initiate, develop and encourage change, and to campaign for a fully inclusive society.

Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB)

www.rnib.org.uk (opens in new window)
Information and advice on living with sight impairment including useful fact sheets.

RNID (Royal National Institute for the Deaf)

www.rnid.org.uk (opens in new window)
RNID’s vision is of a world where deafness and hearing loss are not barriers to opportunity and fulfilment. The RNID provides services directly to deaf and hard of hearing people and those who advise them. Provides publications, training courses, employment programmes, equipment and products.

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