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CHCDIS007 Facilitate the Empowerment of People With Disability Assignment - Inspire Education, Australia

1. Knowledge Assessment

1. Explain the difference between social and medical model of service in disability care. Include in your explanation how these relate to the history and recent developments in the industry.

Guidance: your response must have two parts: (1) the difference between social and medical model of service in disability care, and (2) how this relates to the developments in the industry practice.

2. Explain the difference between institutionalised and person-centred model of support in disability care. Include in your explanation how these relate to the history and recent developments in the industry.

Guidance: your response must have two parts: (1) the difference between social and medical model of service in disability care, and (2) how this relates to the developments in the industry practice.

3. Disability as a social construct:

a) Briefly explain disability as a social construct

b) Briefly explain the impact of your own attitudes on working with people with disabilities

4. Seeking support from more experienced and qualified staff

a) In providing care for people with disability, when should you seek support from more experienced and qualified staff?

Guidance: include one specific example of an instance within the care environment when one should seek support from more experienced and qualified staff

b) Using the example you provided in the previous question, explain how you would seek support

Guidance: indicate the person/s (and their roles) to whom you would seek assistance from

5. Match the following types of disabilities to their correct definitions by writing the letter corresponding to your answer in the spaces provided:

a) acquired brain injury

b) autism spectrum disorder

c) cognitive disability

d) developmental delay

e) intellectual disability

f) neurological impairment

g) physical disability

h) sensory disability, including hearing, vision impairment

i) speech disability

j) language disability

	It is caused by an irregularity of brain development, and is usually detected in early childhood and lasts throughout a person's life; it describes a cluster of disorders such as Retts disorder and Childhood Disintegrative disorder.
	It is a developmental disorder characterised by intelligence limitations and significant difficulty with daily living skills.
	It occurs when there is damage to the nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord.
	It is described as when a child takes longer to reach developmental milestones than other children.
	These are disabilities that may affect, either temporarily or permanently, a person's physical capacity and/or mobility.
	It refers to a disability of the senses (e.g. sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste).
	It is a disorder which causes damage to the brain, changing the way a person acts, thinks, communicates and behaves.
	These are conditions affect the ability to perform one or more mental tasks. This includes but are not limited to problems with reading text, memory, problem solving, keeping focused (attention span), etc.
	The person has difficulty in formulating or articulating words. Examples of these are stuttering and lisping.
	The person has difficulty with expressing and receiving thoughts, ideas and needs through verbal, nonverbal or written communication.

6. Match the following conditions to the examples listed on the table below by writing the corresponding letters in the space provided on the first column.

Then on the last column, describe at least one (1) support practice you can provide as a care worker for each of the listed condition.

a) genetic disabilities

b) physical trauma

c) psychological trauma

d) chronic lifestyle conditions

e) acquired brain injury

Condition		Support Practice
	Anxiety disorder
	Fractured femur
	Concussion
	Down syndrome
	Obesity

7. Briefly describe the following legal and ethical considerations in the context of working with people with disability:

Guidance: describe how each of the listed considerations impact your role as a care worker

Legal and ethical considerations	Impact on care workers caring for people with disability
codes of conduct
discrimination
dignity of risk
duty of care
human rights, including the United nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (UNCRPD)
informed consent
mandatory reporting
privacy, confidentiality and disclosure
work role boundaries - responsibilities and limitations
work health and safety

8. Match the following principles to the correct description as they relate to working with people with disability. Write the letter corresponding to your answer in the space provided:

a) empowerment

b) rights-based approaches

c) person-centred practices

d) self-advocacy

e) active support

f) active listening

g) social justice, and the importance of knowing and respecting each person as an individual

h) strengths-based approach

	Supports and promotes participation, accountability, non-discrimination (equality), empowerment and legality
	Promoting and encouraging self-determination by people with physical disability, supporting them to make their own choices and decisions, particularly where the outcomes directly affect their lives
	Keeping the person with a disability at the centre of decision making
	Ensuring that people with even the most significant disabilities have ongoing, daily support to be engaged in a variety of life activities and opportunities of their choice
	Promoting the participation and voice of people with a disability; enabling people with a disability to develop the skills to ensure that their rights and interests are respected and realised.
	Removing distractions, understanding the speaker's signs and sounds, and providing feedback
	Focuses on the individual's strengths and abilities and not their disabilities, shifting the frame of reference in defining the methodologies for providing support
	Making sure that people with disability has the same choices as every other Australians about how they live and the means to make those choices.

9. List two examples of strategies that assist people with disabilities to exercise their rights.

10. List two examples of strategies that assist people with disabilities to support their independent action and thinking.

11. List two (2) examples of how technology, such as laptops or tablets, help in facilitating choice for people with disability.

12. Explain how to access and use advocacy services for people with disability.

13. Explain how to access and use complaint mechanisms for people with disability.

14. List two examples of indicators of abuse in relation to people with disabilities.

15. List two examples of indicators of neglect in relation to people with disabilities.

2. WORKPLACE EVIDENCE

This part of the RPL Kit requires you to provide evidence from the workplace. The evidence could be from your current workplace or one that you have recently been involved in however it must be in the disability care sector whilst performing the role of disability care worker.

You may need to obtain permission from your workplace supervisor to be able to submit the documents requested. Please also ensure that you maintain confidentiality and remove or cross out any identifying names etc. on the documentation.

This documentation is to demonstrate that you contribute research information about compliance and ethical practice responsibilities and then develop and monitor policies and procedures to meet those responsibilities.

This unit of competency requires you to provide evidence of completing the following:

Knowledge of:

History and recent developments in disability

social versus medical model of service

institutionalised versus person-centred, self-directed model of support

Social constructs of disability and the impact of own attitudes on working with people with disabilities

How and when to seek support from more experienced and qualified staff

Types of disability, including:

acquired brain injury

autism spectrum disorder

cognitive disability

developmental delay

intellectual disability

neurological impairment

physical disability

sensory disability, including hearing, vision impairment

speech/language disability

Support practices for people, including but not limited to, the following conditions:

genetic factors

physical trauma

psychological trauma

chronic lifestyle conditions

acquired brain injury

Legal and ethical considerations for working with people with disability:

codes of conduct

discrimination

dignity of risk

duty of care

human rights, including the United nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (UNCRPD)

informed consent

mandatory reporting

privacy, confidentiality and disclosure

work role boundaries - responsibilities and limitations

work health and safety

Principles of:

empowerment

rights-based approaches

person-centred practices

self-advocacy

active support

active listening

social justice, and the importance of knowing and respecting each person as an individual

strengths-based approaches

Strategies that assist people with disabilities to exercise their rights and support independent action and thinking, including use of technology (e.g. laptops or tablets) to facilitate choice

How to access and use advocacy services and complaint mechanisms

Indicators of abuse and/or neglect in relation to people with disabilities

The requirements of this unit also includes:-

Provision of demonstrated evidence that the candidate has:

Facilitated access to a wide variety of choices that will assist 2 people with disability to reach their personal goals, using:

oral communication skills to maintain positive and respectful relationships with the person with disability

appropriate non-verbal communication strategies

1. Human rights

Submit evidence to demonstrate when you have delivered services that foster human rights of clients with disability. You must ensure the rights and needs of the person are upheld in the context of person-centeredness. Your evidence must contain the following details:

Rights of clients which you have explained with them

Person-centred strategies that you have implemented

Any of the following documents can be submitted as long as it contains the above-mentioned information required:

Meeting minutes

Email correspondence

Task logs

Communication logs

Activity planning sheets containing person-centred strategies

Person-centred planning sheets

Any relevant documentation containing information relating to the person-centred approach

2. Breach or rights

Submit evidence to demonstrate when you have identified and reported breaches of human rights in your workplace, according to the organisation's policies and procedures.

Your evidence must also demonstrate how you have responded to the breaches identified.

Any of the following documents can be submitted as long as it contains the above-mentioned information required:

Email correspondence

Incident report form

Client's medical record

Letter/email of complaint to an appropriate personnel in the organisation

Policies and procedures

Any workplace-related reports/records that provides information on the above-mentioned requirements.

3. Indicators of abuse

Submit evidence to demonstrate when you have identified and reported any indications of possible abuse and/or neglect of clients with disabilities. These can be contained in reports you have submitted to your supervisor or to the relevant authorities.

Any of the following documents can be submitted as long as it contains the above-mentioned information required:

Email correspondence

Incident report form

Client's medical record

Letter/email of complaint to an appropriate personnel in the organisation

Policies and procedures

Any workplace-related reports/records that provides information on the above-mentioned requirements.

4. Self determination

Submit evidence to demonstrate your facilitation of choice and self-determination for at least two (2) clients with disabilities. Your evidence must provide details on the following:

The person-centred approach work that you have used to acknowledge the client with disability as their own expert

How you have facilitated person-centred options for action on relevant issues and discuss with the client and/or family and/or carer and/or relevant other

Identify the issues that you have discussed with the following people.

How you have provide assistance to the client with disability to facilitate communication of their personal goals

Identify the goals that they have discussed with you

Describe how you encouraged and empowered the client to make his/her own choices.

Describe also how you have ensured that the client is comfortable with any decisions that are being made on their behalf.

Evidence submitted must be in consultation with the clients, their families/carers and teacher/s.

Any of the following documents can be submitted as long as it contains the above-mentioned information required:

Email correspondence

Client's care plans

Meeting minutes

Person-centred planning tools

Progress notes

Policies and procedures

Any workplace-related reports/records that provides information on the above-mentioned requirements.

5. Advocacy & Complaints

Submit evidence to demonstrate when you have assisted the client with disability and/or their families/carers with accessing advocacy services and other complaint mechanisms.

Any of the following documents can be submitted as long as it contains the above-mentioned information required:

Meeting minutes

Email correspondence

Progress notes

Communication logs

Staff handbook/memo relating to advocacy and complaints mechanisms

Letter/email of complaint to an appropriate personnel in the organisation

Any workplace-related reports/records that provides information on the above-mentioned requirements.

Submit also a copy of your organisation's policies and procedures relating to advocacy and complaint mechanism.

Attachment:- Empowerment of People With Disability Assignment File.rar