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1. Describe what procedures staff might use to initiate and maintain contact with these groups.
2. Describe how a person with disability might face accessibility issues, making it difficult for them to participate in the community. Describe how they might overcome these issues.
3. List five different resources that might be required in order to facilitate community participation and social inclusion.
4. State three sources that can provide options for information on study, courses, and skills support.
5. How do you know when information is accurate and current?
6. Elisa is a young woman who has fairly recently become physically disabled from an accident that left her paralysed from the waist down. Since release from hospital, Elisa has been living with her parents and receiving support from community support staff on a daily basis. Elisa was a professional tennis player and since the accident she refuses to see her friends who are also tennis players. Elisa has become socially isolated and quite depressed.
How might Elisa be supported to develop a person-centred individualised plan to participate in the community?
7. State six factors that staff should take into consideration when recommending assistive aids.
8. If a staff member recognises they are limited in their knowledge regarding devices, aids and modifications, which professionals might they consult? Provide five examples.
9. Michael, a 40-year-old man who recently had a stroke, lost his ability to adequately communicate by speech and in writing. Michael was a builder before he developed multiple sclerosis (MS), and he was a keen fisherman on weekends. He also has a strong interest in Native American spirituality. Michael is an independent, capable person with a positive attitude to life. He needs some assistance with personal care and cooking, but he can still dress himself and feed himself.
Identify three types of support or devices that might be required to assist with Michael's communication.
10. you are a community support worker and you have a client who is paralysed from the waist down, who also has a mild intellectual disability. The client wishes to undertake vocational training at the local TAFE. While most TAFE colleges should make accommodation for people with disabilities-both in terms of environmental adaptations and in terms of teaching/ training resources-you should make an appropriate assessment about barriers to participation before your client enrols in any courses. How would this be done and what sorts of things would you need to take into consideration?
11. Explain why it is important to recognise one's own limitations in addressing issues, and how this can be rectified.
12. What purposes do review and evaluation processes serve? Provide five examples.
13. Mandy has a physical and intellectual disability and is confined to a wheelchair. Mandy has expressed a desire to join a gardening group that meets outdoors in a nursery and involves the use of chemicals for insect control. Applying the hierarchy of control, describe how staff might work with Mandy and appropriate others to identify and develop strategies to remove or reduce the risk of Mandy being poisoned by the gardening chemicals. Provide three examples.