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On this page you can find out more about publications that VoiceAbility has produced, and about other resources that we know about that may be useful for you.

New Publications

Parents Booklet

Written for, and by, parents who have learning disabilities, this booklet tells you what happens if Children's Services feel your child is at risk of harm.

The booklet explains in easy to understand words and pictures:

• Who normally makes decisions about child protection
• What happens when Children’s Services get involved
• The Child Protection Process
• What happens at different meetings
• Emergency Protection Orders
• What happens in court 
• Different legal orders
• Adoption and Fostering processes

If you would like to receive one or more booklets for you or your organisation, please contact our Consultancy and Training team on candt@voiceability.org or call 01223 555845.

You can also download the parents booklet here (pdf 4mb)

 

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Top Tips!

Meetings Top Tips

The MPs and Peer Champions of the Cambridgeshire Learning Disability Parliament have been working hard to try and make the meetings they attend more accessible.  As part of this work the group thought of 10 top tips for making meetings more accessible.  They also included their thoughts about what made a good meeting and what made a bad meeting.  We hope that this resource will be useful for people when organising meetings that people with learning disabilities will attend.

The tips include information about:

• The importance of time keeping
• Involvement
• Effective communication techniques
• Accessible language
• Ensuring participants are on track
• Paperwork

High Support Needs Top Tips

Several years ago the High Support Needs Committee put together a list of Top Tips for working with people with High Support Needs.  The Parliament have adapted this work into a list of Top Tips for setting up a High Support Needs Committee to encourage other people and organisations to set up similar committees or groups to help represent people with complex needs. 

The tips include information about:

• Appropriate support
• Effective communication techniques
• Meeting planning and coordination
• Meeting timings and venues
• Time commitment
• Measuring effectiveness

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Free Resources!

Due to our merger our name has changed! So we are looking to find good homes to our fantastic resources.  You can contact us to claim your free goodies via carla.spain@voiceability.org and we will send them out to you.  All we need from you is some self addressed labels to stick on your parcels and payment of the postage. 

All of our interactive booklets were written by our Booklet Focus Group – a group of people with learning difficulties who are employed by VoiceAbility to work on our Publications as well as on our Consultancy and Training functions

When Someone Dies

Price: £ 0!  - £1 postage

When someone dies: an accessible guide to bereavement for people with learning difficulties and their supporters

Designed to be used by an individual with or without support and guides them through the stages of the bereavement process. It is written in easy-read with illustrations and it includes a pull-out emotions chart, illustrating the cycle of grief and demonstrating that eventually the pain will ease off.

Click here to read a review of this booklet by the National Autistic Society.

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Moving

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Moving: an accessible guide to moving home for people with learning difficulties and their supporters.

Moving house is a stressful time but especially if you have learning difficulties and people don't tell you what is going on or involve you in the decisions. This helpful book breaks moving into steps, helps with decision making and comes with a pull out chart to help with planning. This book is written by people with learning difficulties for people with learning difficulties

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My Choice

My choice: an accessible guide to making choices for people with learning difficulties and their supporters

Everyone has the right to make choices but sometimes it can be difficult and, especially if a person is not used to making choices. The 2007 Mental Capacity Act gives people with learning difficulties more opportunities to choose for themselves and this book will be a huge help in making choices, with a helpful pull out choices chart. This book is written by people with learning difficulties for people with learning difficulties.

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Keeping Yourself Clean

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Keeping Yourself Clean: an accessible guide to making choices for people with learning difficulties and their supporters

Keeping ourselves clean is really important so that we can look our best and feel great. For people with learning difficulties it can be difficult to remember all the things needed to keep clean. This book is designed to give people with learning difficulties information and pictures to help them remember what they need to do to keep fresh and clean. Some people may feel happier going through this booklet alone or without help. Others may prefer to read it through with someone who supports them. Words like acne and tooth decay have been put in bold and you can find out what they mean at the back of the book. There is a helpful pull-out body chart to summarise the best way of keeping fresh and clean all over.

Click here to read a review from the National Autistic Society