KNOWLEDGE OF PEOPLE - Supporting people with disabilities

The aim is to acquire the following professional skills:

- Improve professional practice in order to support people with disabilities

- Identify the different types of disability and associated disorders

- Better situate themselves in the relationship with the person being cared for and improve their communication.

- What is disability

- What are our prejudices, our representations of disability? How can we act and react accordingly?

- The characteristics of the different types of disability

- Associated disorders and impairments

- Multiple disabilities

- Elderly people and disability: impairments due to ageing

- How to work with an accompanied disabled person

- How to communicate?

- What to do in a critical situation

- Common appliances that can be used in the person's home.

• Statement of skills and/or competencies

• All audiences

Employees working in the home help sector, in specialised care establishments

• Fully classroom-based training

• Group lessons

EN-certified teachers, Bac +3 trainers with significant experience in adult education, professional lecturers

Positioning and maintenance

Access for people with disabilities