Learning Disability Week 2020

We are proud to celebrate Learning Disability Week 2020

 

Learning Disability Week #LDWeek2020 is a great way to raise the awareness of learning disability across the UK.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, we have all been living in lockdown. This means that many people with a learning disability are feeling isolated, as they have been unable to see their friends and families.

We know that people with a learning disability already experience high levels of loneliness and social isolation and that this will only have been made worse by the lockdown.

We’ll be sharing posts from Mencap about this week’s theme which is the importance of friendships during lockdown to help with tackling isolation, as well as exploring the different ways of maintaining friendships during this unusual time.

We’re very grateful to everyone who’s been in touch with us from across the Trust to share how they have coped during lockdown along with some blogs from LD colleagues.

You can read them here:

• Lisa Cromack is an Involvement Coordinator at the Trust. In these blogs, she shares her stories:
  My coronavirus story
  Looking after my wellbeing
• Turning up the music while on lockdown by Oliver Sutton who has been continuing to dj online for Leep1 and Specialised Supported Living Service
• A lockdown poem by Luke Halgrave a resident at Parkside View
• The vital work of an Intensive Interaction Practitioner by Graham Firth: using intensive interaction to build friendships
• How I made people feel happy and smile during lockdown by Jeanette
• Reflections on working in Learning Disability Services by Dr Ruth Berry, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
• A poem about coronavirus by Ann Watherston, Deputy Support Manager at Specialised Supported Living Service

Page last updated: 18th Jun 2020 3:51pm