
Personal development for learning disability workers
Lesley Barcham(Author)
Learning Matters Ltd (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 3. June 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-85725-609-6 (ISBN)
Description
If you are working within the learning disability sector and studying for the QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care, you will find this book invaluable in helping you to achieve the unit on Personal Development. It will help you to become a person-centred worker, to reflect on your own performance and to develop a plan for your future development.
The book is easy to navigate, with each chapter covering one of the learning outcomes within the unit. Each chapter begins with an example taken from real people's stories and lots of activities, photographs and other illustrations are included throughout.
The book is easy to navigate, with each chapter covering one of the learning outcomes within the unit. Each chapter begins with an example taken from real people's stories and lots of activities, photographs and other illustrations are included throughout.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Sage Publications Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 263 mm
Width: 196 mm
Weight
213 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85725-609-6 (9780857256096)
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Person
Lesley Barcham's career has been about learning. She trained as a teacher of deaf children in the 1970s and started out as a hearing therapist and then teacher of secondary aged deaf children. She has also worked in residential child care and teaching children with learning disabilities and adults with a learning disability in a further education college. Lesley gained a PhD from the Open University in the 1990s for her research into the development of education for disabled children in Southern Africa. Lesley has worked for BILD for 14 years on a variety of learning materials and programmes. From 2009 - 2011 she was seconded part time to the Valuing People Team as workforce advisor.
Content
About the author and the people who contributed to this book
Introduction
Competence in your work role with people with learning disabilities
Being a reflective worker and evaluating your practice
Evaluating your performance
Agreeing your personal development plan and developing your knowledge skills
Glossary
Index
Introduction
Competence in your work role with people with learning disabilities
Being a reflective worker and evaluating your practice
Evaluating your performance
Agreeing your personal development plan and developing your knowledge skills
Glossary
Index