This webinar is for health professionals and staff who support people with intellectual disability as part of their job.

The webinar aims to increase knowledge of intellectual disability amongst health professionals and raise awareness about the challenges that people with intellectual disability face in their health care.

Learning outcomes

By completing this webinar, you will:

• Gain lived experience insight from facilitators with intellectual disability
• Understand the importance of person-centred inclusive practice
• Begin to consider reasonable adjustments needed for people with intellectual disability
• Understand the importance of inclusive communication skills
• Learn about free resources that can help improve their inclusive practice
• Learn about further in-depth learning opportunities through CID’s free eLearning.

The webinar includes reflection activities throughout. To achieve the learning outcomes, we encourage you to pause the webinar and complete each activity before continuing.

Resources and links

This webinar refers to the following resources to support your learning, in order of appearance.

• Plain English Acknowledgement of Country
• National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health
• National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline
• NSW Ageing and Disability Abuse Helpline – 1800 628 221
• Research on health inequality
• Research on life expectancy
• National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards User guide for the health care of people with intellectual disability
• Easy Read resources, including Me and My Medication
• Inclusion Services
• My Health Matters folder
• Video on how Leonie uses her My Health Matters folder
• My Health cards
• Resources for First Nations people, including Aboriginal Health Worker guide, Let’s Yarn poster and Let’s Yarn factsheet
• Reasonable adjustment checklist
• Supported decision making framework
• Just Include Me eLearning.

The webinar is co-facilitated by CID team members with lived experience of intellectual disability.

This webinar received funding from the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.