Profound & Multiple Learning Disability - Engaging Children in Learning

This course is suitable for anyone working with and supporting a child or young person with Profound and Multiple Learning Disability. It explores areas that are particularly relevant in enabling an individual to get the most out of their environment, and addressing their need to feel safe and secure within it.

Find out:

• How a child with PMLD may perceive the world
• How to engage children successfully in fun activities
• How to support children at an early level of communicative competence
• About sensory systems and the impact of impairment
• About the development of vision and eating skills

Outcomes of the course:

• An understanding of a wider definition of progress and different measuring tools
• How to analyse an idividual's communication level
• An understanding of the wide range of needs of an individual with PMLD and how to address some of those needs
• How to plan for learning at every opportunity throughout the day and differentiate within group activities

Cost of course:
£185 + Vat, 2nd & subsequent places on same course £165 + Vat