Sensory disability Sensory disability is a disability of the senses sight, hearing, – smell, touch, taste. It can affect how a person gathers information from the world around them. Specialist Support Specialist Support Coordination includes all the activities Coordination available from a Support Coordinator, but is used in special circumstances where it is appropriate to have a specialist deliver Support Coordination-style activities, necessitated by specific high-level risk in the participant’s situation. Strengths-based working is about using parents’ and carers’ skills to achieve goals or changes in behaviour. Summarising Summarising builds on what a parent has said and helps you check that you have understood the parent or carer. Support coordination Support coordination helps participants choose and access service providers and implement their plan. Support Coordinator A Support Coordinator is a person who participants choose and access service providers and implement their plan. Your team leader is your line manager or supervisor; the Team leader person who supports you in your role. Victorian Aboriginal The Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Community Organisation (VACCHO) is the peak body for the health and Controlled Health wellbeing of Aboriginal people living in Victoria. VACCHO can Organisation support organisations in the child and family system to (VACCHO) become culturally competent when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and families with disability. Working Working collaboratively is about working in partnership, collaboratively recognising the other person’s strengths and skills, and not seeing yourself as the expert. Suggested responses to Exercise 1: Family scenario In addition to NDIS funded support what other services is it likely Alex and the family will be accessing?
Sensory disability Sensory disability is a disability of the senses – sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste. It can affect how a person gathers information from the world around them. Specialist Support Coordination Specialist Support Coordination includes all the activities available from a Support Coordinator, but is used in special circumstances where it is appropriate to have a specialist deliver Support Coordination-style activities, necessitated by specific high-level risk in the participant’s situation. Strengths-based working is about using parents’ and carers’ skills to achieve goals or changes in behaviour. Summarising Summarising builds on what a parent has said and helps you check that you have understood the parent or carer. Support coordination Support coordination helps participants choose and access service providers and implement their plan. Support Coordinator A Support Coordinator is a person who participants choose and access service providers and implement their plan. Team leader Your team leader is your line manager or supervisor; the person who supports you in your role. Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) The Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) is the peak body for the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people living in Victoria. VACCHO can support organisations in the child and family system to become culturally competent when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and families with disability. Working collaboratively Working collaboratively is about working in partnership, recognising the other person’s strengths and skills, and not seeing yourself as the expert. Suggested responses to Exercise 1: Family scenario In addition to NDIS funded support what other services is it likely Alex and the family will be accessing?
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