How can we help people with learning disabilities engage more in meaningful activities?

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The general population spends over 90% of their time engaged in meaningful activity, whilst people with a learning disability spend only 33% (without active support).

A new study looks at ‘social’ or ‘non-social’ domestic activities. An activity is deemed to contain social engagement when it involves recognisable speech, signs or gestures to attract or retain the attention of another person… http://bit.ly/cforum91

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I am interested to know moe about this post any ideas how this was generated? J

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Hi Jane

The Choice Forum team monitors, when they have time, different news sources for information which Choice Forum members may find interesting. All members are encouraged to share information which may be interesting and/or useful to other Choice Forum members/visitors.

This particular information was found on the Learning Disabilities Elf Service and can be found here: http://www.nationalelfservice.net/populations-and-settings/quality-of-life/how-can-we-help-people-with-learning-disabilities-engage-more-in-meaningful-activities/

I hope this answers your question.

Neil
Choice Forum Team