At the meeting we trialled a new way of making sure that everybody is heard. This was because at our last meeting some people felt that there were people taking over and not everybody was getting time to talk. Meaningful inclusion and communication is so important to us and revisiting ground rules has helped us to think about this.
We had a new member Andrew with us who chaired the meeting and we used a number of A4 size easy read symbols 'I want to be heard' on the desk in front of members.
Professor Ruth Northway came to talk to the group about being involved in a piece of research, we talked about exercise and how people with learning disabilities might be motivated to exercise but might not have the knowledge about how or where they can exercise.
Or they may want to exercise and know how important it is but might not have the equipment and money to get involved. TRAC are really excited about this piece of work.
In the meeting Ben Pitcher came to talk to us about being involved in teaching advanced practitioners, Ben would like TRAC to come and talk about what is important for other people to know when communicating and assessing people with learning disabilities. We talked a lot about medication, consultations and how important it is to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act (2010), something that was really important was having extra time and having a key person who can be there to explain and help to ask more questions.
