Guidelines for Consulting Children and Young People with Disabilities
Plan International (2016)
This document provides guidance on the importance of consulting children with disabilities. It provides practical suggestions for consulting with children and young people with disabilities in a variety of situations. It aims to equip individuals working on child rights with the knowledge and skills necessary to communicate with children with a variety of disabilities. The guideline sets out tips and suggestions for the entire consultation process including; planning for the consultation, general considerations for consulting with children with disabilities, specific tips for communicating with children with different types of impairments, and some case study examples.
Participation and advocacy workshop, facilitator’s guide and training slides.
Changing the Way We Care (2019)
This is a training package for a half-day workshop on participation and self-advocacy approaches for working with children with disabilities and their families. By the end of the training, it is intended that participants will:
- Understand the benefits of children’s participation and family involvement;
- Have increased knowledge and awareness of self-advocacy approaches; and
- Have generated ideas for introducing the learnings into their programme planning.
10 Self-Advocacy Tips for Young People with Disabilities
Include NYC (2017)
This three-minute video outlines 10 tips for self-advocacy for young people with disabilities, by young people with disabilities.
Diary of a Short Breaks Carer (Russian only)
P4EC (n/d)
This document is completed by respite (short breaks) carers after each placement. The diary functions as a record of the child’s experience in respite care and enable monitoring of service provision.
Healthcare Booklet
Together Trust (n/d)
This document is a tool to record and communicate the client’s needs as they relate to health care. The record is in client-friendly language and includes details about: mobility, personal hygiene, eating and drinking, exercise, hand and foot care, hair care, eye care, skincare, dental care, etc.
My Health Action Plan
Together Trust (n/d)
This document is a tool to record the client’s health journey; their health-related past, their current health status, what is currently working well/not well to improve their health, which areas the client would like to improve, a client-friendly illustrated case plan template and a client-friendly monthly health diary to monitor their status over time.
All About Me Booklet
Together Trust (n/d)
This document contains personal information about the client, in client-friendly language, that can be used to help the client to communicate with new people; the booklet can be shown to new people the client encounters. Personal information includes: the client’s family’s structure, the parent/s’ short and long-term hopes/goals for the child, likes and dislikes, health considerations, communication strategies and capabilities.
My Support Needs
Together Trust (n/d)
This document contains personal information about the client, in client-friendly language, that can be used to help the client to communicate their support needs with new people, including how to communicate best, capabilities and areas for support, and what the client considers useful and not useful support.