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Easy Read Leaflet – Sugar
Keeping an eye on sugar: Easy Read Leaflet – Sugar (pdf)
Easy Read Leaflet – Cervical Screening
Going for a Cervical Screening Test: Easy Read Leaflet – Cervical Screening (pdf)
Easy Read Leaflet – Heart Health
Keep an eye on your heart; blood pressure, cholesterol level and body mass index: Easy Read Leaflet – Heart health (pdf)
Easy Read Leaflet – STIs
Understanding sexually transmitted infections: Easy Read Leaflet – STIs (pdf)
Easy Read Leaflet – Breast Screening
Going for breast screening: Easy Read Leaflet – Breast Screening (pdf)
Easy Read Leaflet – Use Of Olive Oil Spray
Care Plan For Use Of Olive Oil Spray: Easy Read Leaflet – Use Of Olive Oil Spray (pdf)
Easy Read Leaflet – Swabbing
Having swabs taken; information for patients: Easy Read Leaflet – Swabbing (pdf)
13 Videos For Carers
Videos For Carers (Families, Staff, Friends, Advocates) of People with Learning Disabilities
The overall playlist can be found at Videos for Carers (Families, Staff, Friends, Advocates) of People with Learning Disabilities (youtube.com)
Introduction to videos for carers of people with learning disabilities
This video is for carers of people with learning disabilities to introduce the series of videos we have created and help carers identify which videos may be useful for them to watch. The series includes some videos which are aimed at the wellbeing of the people you care for, and some which focus on your own wellbeing.
What is Anxiety and Advice for Trying Strategies with the Person You Care For
This video is for carers of people with learning disabilities to help identify what anxiety is and how they might notice this in the people they care for. It includes advice for carers on supporting people with learning disabilities to manage their anxiety and finding the ways to do this that are most suited to them.
Talking Together About Coronavirus
This video is for carers of people with learning disabilities to consider how to discuss and communicate aspects of coronavirus to those you care for. The video will provide useful strategies and tips to make talking together about coronavirus helpful, safe and positive. It may help to also watch the videos in our series: ‘Carers video – anxiety techniques for you’ and ‘Supporting the person you care for: Anxiety about Coronavirus’ for further ideas about how to support yourself and those you care for, in relation to coronavirus.
Supporting the Person You Care For: Anxiety about coronavirus
This video is for carers of people with learning disabilities and focuses on how to recognise anxiety in the person with learning disabilities that you support. It gives some techniques to use with people with learning disabilities.
Supporting the Person You Care For: Breathing, mindfulness and relaxation techniques
This video is for carers of people with learning disabilities and focuses on the specific anxiety management techniques that we have recommended for people with learning disabilities. The video includes why these techniques might be helpful and things to consider when supporting the person you care for to try them out. The videos of the specific techniques that are referred to are:
- Balloon Breathing Exercise
- The 5 Seconds Breathing Exercise
- Breathing Exercise Using Your Imagination
- How to Relax the Muscles in Your Body 1
- How to Relax the Muscles in Your Body 2
- Explaining Mindfulness and the Five Things Exercise
- The My Relaxing Place Exercise
Supporting Others to Structure their day
Supporting others to structure their day: As many things are cancelled and everyone’s routine is disrupted at the minute, people with Learning Disabilities and their carers may be left feeling stressed, overwhelmed and anxious. This video gives some suggestions on how carers could help the person they support to structure their day or week during lockdown. It may be useful to use this in conjunction with the other activity scheduling videos in this series, such as ‘Bordeom Busters’ and ‘How to plan my day’ aimed at people with Learning Disabilities.
Carers Video: Anxiety techniques for you
This video is for carers of people with learning disabilities to think about the importance of managing your own wellbeing in order to continue to provide the best support to the people that you care for. It includes a guided imagery mindfulness exercise called “Leaves on a stream” for carers to try.
Carers Video: Maintaining wellbeing through a varied routine
During these challenging times, relatives and carers of someone with a Learning Disability may be feeling overwhelmed and unable to cope with the increased pressures of caring with reduced resources available. This video gives some advice on how relatives or carers could decrease stress by having a balance of activities that promote self-care.
Carers Video: Managing worries about illness or death
This video aims to reduce any anxiety carers may have about talking about illness or death with the person with learning disabilities they support. It includes some tips on how to approach these difficult conversations and provides some resources which can support with this.
Relationships 1: Living together at home during lockdown
This video has been developed to support carers who are living at home with a person with learning disabilities during the pandemic. It highlights some of the challenges that they may be facing during this period as well as introducing tips and suggestions to managing life whilst living together. The video makes reference to another video which may be relevant for carers who experience anxiety (insert link for Video 7 carers video- anxiety techniques).
The video recommends using the following handout to think about ways of talking together as a family.
Relationships 2: Living apart during lockdown
This video has been developed to support carers who are living apart from their loved one with a learning disability during the pandemic. It highlights some of the difficulties that you may be experiencing during this period as well as introducing tips and suggestions to manage life whilst living apart from a person with a learning disability.
Understanding Behaviours that Challenge
This video has been developed to support carers of people with learning disabilities who may be displaying behaviours that challenge. It discusses the possible reasons behind why someone may display behaviours that challenge, as well as providing an overview of the Positive Behaviour Support framework and how it can be used to support someone presenting with heightened distress. Examples of proactive strategies to support the person are discussed.
Bereavement
This video aims to help family members or carers who may be worried about how to explain the death of someone close to the person who they support. It includes some tips on how to approach these difficult conversations and provides some resources which can help you with this as well as how to support them to manage their feelings.
There are other videos focusing on supporting carers of people with learning disabilities that may be of interest to you as well as other videos designed for the person with a Learning Disability: (insert links to the playlist of other videos in this series)
Easy Read Leaflet – STOMP
Stopping the over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both: Read the Easy Read Leaflet – STOMP (pdf)
Easy Read Leaflet – Constipation
Understanding constipation is a leaflet made by those who need accessible information working with BTM: Easy Read Leaflet – Constipation (pdf)
How to use the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Kit: Easy Read Leaflet – Bowel Cancer Screening (pdf)
Easy Read Leaflet – Diabetes
Understanding Diabetes: Easy Read Leaflet – Diabetes (pdf)
Easy Read Leaflet – Contraception
A guide to using contraception: Easy Read Leaflet – Contraception (pdf)
Easy Read Leaflet – Flu
A guide to Flu: Easy Read Leaflet – Flu (pdf)
Easy Read Leaflet – COVID & Mental Health
Protect yourself and others from coronavirus; looking after your mental health: Easy Read Leaflet – COVID & Mental Health (pdf)
Easy Read Leaflet – Why we wear PPE
Easy Read Leaflet – Video Consultations
Video consulting with your NHS, a quick guide for patients: Easy Read Leaflet – Video Consultations (pdf)
20 Videos For People With Learning Disabilities
Video Library
The overall playlist can be found here Coronavirus: information for people with Learning Disabilities (youtube.com).
Explaining Coronavirus for People with Learning Disabilities
This video is for people with learning disabilities to help understand what is coronavirus, how it can spread from person to person, and what restrictions are in place. It may help to also watch the video ‘Explaining Social Distancing for People with Learning Disabilities’.
I think I have Coronavirus
This video is for people with learning disabilities to help understand what happens if they think they might have coronavirus. It may help to also watch the video ‘Explaining Coronavirus for People with Learning Disabilities’ and ‘Explaining Social Distancing for People with Learning Disabilities’.
Explaining Social Distancing for People with Learning Disabilities
This video is for people with learning disabilities to help understand about social distancing. It may help to first watch the video ‘Explaining Coronavirus for People with Learning Disabilities’.
Anxiety and Your Body
This video is for people with learning disabilities to help understand about anxiety and what the person may feel if they are feeling anxious or worried. This is the first of a series of videos that will explain anxiety and give some practical ways of helping with anxiety. We suggest that you watch the ‘5 things to do when feeling anxious’ video next, and then try some of the exercises in the following videos:
- 5 seconds breathing exercise
- Balloon breathing exercise
- Breathing exercise using your imagination
- Explaining mindfulness and the 5 things exercise
- My relaxing place exercise
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 1
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 2
5 things to do when feeling anxious
This video is for people with learning disabilities to help understand what to do when they are feeling anxious or worried. This is the second in a series of videos that explain anxiety and give some practical ways of helping with anxiety. We suggest that you watch the ‘Anxiety and Your Body’ video first, and then try some of the exercises in the following videos:
- 5 seconds breathing exercise
- Balloon breathing exercise
- Breathing exercise using your imagination
- Explaining mindfulness and the 5 things exercise
- My relaxing place exercise
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 1
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 2
5 seconds breathing exercise
This video is for people with learning disabilities who may be anxious or worried. It demonstrates a simple breathing exercise that they can learn and put into practice to make them feel more relaxed. This is one of a number of different videos showing different relaxation techniques. It may be that one of the other techniques may work better, so please try them all and choose the ones that the person likes the best. The others in the series are:
- Balloon breathing exercise
- Breathing exercise using your imagination
- Explaining mindfulness and the 5 things exercise
- My relaxing place exercise
- Balloon breathing exercise
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 1
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 2
Balloon breathing exercise
This video is for people with learning disabilities who may be anxious or worried. It demonstrates a simple breathing exercise that they can learn and put into practice to make them feel more relaxed. This is one of a number of different videos showing different relaxation techniques. It may be that one of the other techniques may work better, so please try them all and choose the ones that the person likes the best. The others in the series are:
- 5 seconds breathing exercise
- Breathing exercise using your imagination
- Explaining mindfulness and the 5 things exercise
- My relaxing place exercise
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 1
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 2
Breathing exercise using your imagination
This video is for people with learning disabilities who may be anxious or worried. It demonstrates a simple breathing exercise that they can learn and put into practice to make them feel more relaxed. This is one of a number of different videos showing different relaxation techniques. It may be that one of the other techniques may work better, so please try them all and choose the ones that the person likes the best. The others in the series are:
- 5 second breathing exercise
- Balloon breathing exercise
- Explaining mindfulness and the 5 things exercise
- My relaxing place exercise
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 1
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 2
Explaining mindfulness and the 5 things exercise
This video is for people with learning disabilities who may be anxious or worried. It demonstrates a simple breathing exercise that they can learn and put into practice to make them feel more relaxed. This is one of a number of different videos showing different relaxation techniques. It may be that one of the other techniques may work better, so please try them all and choose the ones that the person likes the best. The others in the series are:
- 5 second breathing exercise
- Balloon breathing exercise
- Breathing exercise using your imagination
- My relaxing place exercise
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 1
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 2
My relaxing place exercise
This video is for people with learning disabilities who may be anxious or worried. It demonstrates a simple breathing exercise that they can learn and put into practice to make them feel more relaxed. This is one of a number of different videos showing different relaxation techniques. It may be that one of the other techniques may work better, so please try them all and choose the ones that the person likes the best. The others in the series are:
- 5 second breathing exercise
- Balloon breathing exercise
- Breathing exercise using your imagination
- Explaining mindfulness and the 5 things exercise
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 1
- How to Relax the Muscles in your body 2
How to Relax the Muscles in Your Body 1
This video is for people with learning disabilities who may be anxious or worried. It demonstrates a muscle tensing and relaxing exercise that they can learn and put into practice to make them feel more relaxed. This is one of a number of different videos showing different relaxation techniques. It may be that one of the other techniques may work better, so please try them all and choose the ones that the person likes the best. The others in the series are:
- 5 second breathing exercise
- Balloon breathing exercise
- Breathing exercise using your imagination
- Explaining mindfulness and the 5 things exercise
- My Relaxing Place
- How to Relax the Muscles in your Body 2
How to Relax the Muscles in Your Body 2
This video is for people with learning disabilities who may be anxious or worried. It demonstrates a muscle tensing and relaxing exercise that they can learn and put into practice to make them feel more relaxed. This is one of a number of different videos showing different relaxation techniques. It may be that one of the other techniques may work better, so please try them all and choose the ones that the person likes the best. The others in the series are:
- 5 second breathing exercise
- Balloon breathing exercise
- Breathing exercise using your imagination
- Explaining mindfulness and the 5 things exercise
- My Relaxing Place
- How to Relax the Muscles in your Body 1
Boredom Busters
This video is for people with learning disabilities to give lots of ideas of things that they can do to fill their day whilst day and leisure activities are closed. It may help to also watch the video ‘How Do I Plan My Day’ to think about how to put these activities into a daily or weekly schedule. Our Occupational Therapy newsletter contains ideas for new activities each week. To request a copy of this please email Sarah Hewes at sarah.hewes@sabp.nhs.uk
How Do I Plan My Day
This video is for people with learning disabilities to give ideas on how to plan their time whilst day and leisure activities are closed. It will help the person to develop either a daily or weekly schedule using the suggestions shown in the ‘Boredom Busters’ video. A template for a timetable and further activity ideas can be found in the OT newsletter. To request a copy of this please email Sarah Hewes at sarah.hewes@sabp.nhs.uk’
Explaining the New Normal for People with Learning Disabilities
This video is for people with learning disabilities to help understand the changes that are happening in the community because of coronavirus like social distancing, wearing gloves and face masks, getting swab tests, and social isolation. It may also help to watch the videos “Explaining Social Distancing for People with Learning Disabilities”, “I Think I Have Coronavirus”, “Getting a Swab Test”, and “How Shops are Different”.
How Shops are different
This video is for people with learning disabilities to help understand how shops will be different because of the coronavirus. It may help to also watch the video “Explaining the New Normal for People with Learning Disabilities” to find out what other things may be different.
Having a Swab Test Taken
This video is for people with learning disabilities to help them understand what happens when they are asked to have a swab test for coronavirus. It shows how a swab test is undertaken.
Wearing Masks
This video is for people with learning disabilities to help them understand about wearing face masks.
Managing Feelings after somebody has died
This video is for people with learning disabilities to help them understand and manage their feelings after somebody has died. It helps to explain what you may be feeling and things that you can do to help manage your feelings.