Course overview of Working With Children And Young People With Disabilities
This Working With Children And Young People With Disabilities is for social care professionals working with children and young people with disabilities. Furthermore, the nature of the work means that continuing professional development training is integral to their success.
Inclusive support services require workers who understand the issues faced by children and young people with disabilities and their families. Our training course enables learners to address these issues and also develop essential knowledge and skills to work effectively with a diverse range of children and young people with disabilities.
Course content
This course will cover the following:
- Definitions
- Models of disability
- School provision
- Legislation
- Developmental delays
- Getting support
- Invisibility and marginalisaton
- Useful resources

Already have your own LMS? You can purchase any of our courses as SCORM files to download and add to your own system.
Aims of Working With Children And Young People With Disabilities course
By the end of the training, you will:
- Understand the social model of disability in relation to working with disabled children and young people
- Have knowledge of how to promote inclusion for all children and young people
- Awareness of how disability can be stigmatised, and how this can be challenged
- How to help children get the most out of life and meet their particular special needs
What audience is this online course suitable for?
This course is for people who want to know more about how living with a disability can affect a young persons life. Whilst it provides focus for people working in Children's Services, it will also be useful to people who would like to know more about how to support children with disabilities. As well as how to promote inclusion.
We can deliver this course either: online, as a webinar, or as a face-to-face programme. However, if you have your own LMS and would like this course as a SCORM file, please get in touch.