What is the Adult Learning Disability Service?
The Team consists of Community and Liaison Nurses, Nurse Specialists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Psychiatrists and Psychologists. Their aim is to proactively identify the health needs and inequalities of people with learning disabilities. The team works together with people with learning disabilities, their carers and other agencies to promote health and well-being and to improve quality of life, using person-centred approaches in the way they assess, plan, implement and evaluate plans of care. The core principles are that people with learning disabilities have a right to: • Respect and understanding • Speak out and make their own decisions • Live as independently as possible • Feel safe • Be involved in the services caring for them • Have choice, information, and equal opportunities Relevant local and national policy includes New Ways of Working in Health Services for People with Learning Disabilities (2005) and the Green Paper – Indepen
