Sentences with phrase «people with a learning disability who»

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«Strawberry Field has the potential to bring that vision to life; changing the lives of young people with learning disabilities, who find it difficult to find gainful employment, as well as encourage more projects similar across the UK.»

• Fathers who possess assertiveness, negotiation and organizational skills felt better able to work with professionals (Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities, 2007).

Half the people who are diagnosed with this condition have also been found to experience some learning disabilities.

Learn how respite care services can help caregivers who look after the elderly and people with special needs or disabilities.

James is one of an estimated 10 000 people in Britain with a learning disability (formerly called mental handicap) who deliberately and regularly harm themselves.

Estimates of the proportion of people with severe learning disabilities who harm themselves in some way range from one in eight to one in three in those whose learning disability is combined with autism and a sensory disability such as loss of sight or hearing.

Short - term memory also comes into play in another learning game I tried, because it is a problem area for many people who struggle with mental disabilities.

The delight of making research discoveries with colleagues, engineering neural devices in close partnership with people who have disabilities and opening new pathways to learning for the next generation are all at the heart of the Center's mission.

Most of the students in this book, either through their own drivenness or through the interventions of adults — either parents, teachers, or related services people, therapists and so forth — develop the strategies they needed to be successful: to be able to access education at a high level; to know how to handle the heavy reading load when they read at a very low rate; to learn how to manage pain, which was the case with one of the students in the book who has chronic pain due to his physical disabilities; or to learn how to manage anxiety, which is the case of two of the people in the book.

Besides the chairperson, who was not expected to vote except to break a tie, the panel included two testing experts (psychometricians), one college admissions officer, and three persons with experience and training in the special - education and learning - disabilities arena.

Positioned within the Young Ambassador movement, people with and without intellectual disabilities, who have been selected for their leadership qualities, have gathered at the various Play Unified Youth Summits to drive the campaign and learn how to become leaders in their schools.

Persons who struggle with reading, spelling, or writing due to dyslexia or a learning disability.

The Disability and Employment Community of Practice is an online learning destination for public workforce system staff and partners, jobseekers, community - based organizations, grantees, and the business sector, who provide services and programs to people with disabilities and / or other challenges to employment.

The Animal Refuge League in Portland has partnered with STRIVE, an organization that helps young people with learning developmental disabilities, to create this wonderful program where young people who may be shy about reading in front of people come to read to these adoptable shelter cats.

We supply professional, private driving lessons for people who are just learning to drive, for people who have knowledge and want advanced driving techniques, and for people with disabilities who have special requirements.

Social service workers work largely with offenders, mentally unstable people, drug and alcohol abusers and people who may have learning or even physical disabilities.

I specialize in working with people who have learning disabilities, ADHD, and ASD; however, I welcome working with all young people!

The CBF supports people with severe learning disabilities who display behaviour described as challenging.

«I am a counselor and psychotherapist experienced in helping people who are dealing with stressful events and emotional issues such as: depression, anxiety, relationships, parenting concerns, life transitions, and ADHD and learning disabilities.

Works with people with intellectual or learning disabilities who have been victims of sexual violence, other crime or exploitation.

WWILD Sexual Violence Prevention Service works with people with intellectual or learning disabilities who have been victims of sexual violence, other crime or exploitation.

As the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) continues its rollout, people with disabilities, their carers and families, and those who work in the sector are on a steep learning curve.

The district court noted that a person with a disability is defined as «someone who has an impairment that substantially limits one or more of the «major life activities» such as «caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working.»»