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Helping professionals support parents with intellectual disability
Parents with intellectual disability tend to have fewer social supports, so the service system can be critical in helping families to function.
But many service providers find it challenging supporting mothers and fathers with intellectual disability. And they need effective strategies and information.
Boosting skills for parents for better outcomes
Evidence shows that parents with intellectual difficulties are able to learn and apply adequate parenting skills, but they can still face negative assumptions from a range of sources.
Below are some areas of professional development that may be useful for professionals who work with parents who have intellectual difficulties and want to improve outcomes. This includes parents who don’t necessarily have a diagnosed intellectual disability, but have learning difficulties that can impact on their ability to take on new information.
The resources and information on this page are for those of you working in disability, health, child protection, welfare or family support who have the capacity to work individually with parents.
The Parenting Young Children training program
Parenting Young Children is an evidence-based parent education program that helps parents with learning difficulties develop positive interactions with their child and improve child care skills.
We train groups of professionals to deliver the program. Training provides you with the skills to set goals, design content, and develop teaching materials with parents. You will learn teaching principles and strategies, practitioner skills, and how to adhere to the program and maintain your skills. We will also give you specific information on coaching parents in child care and parent-child interactions.
Enquire about group training for this programThe Healthy & Safe training program
Healthy & Safe is an evidence-based parent education program that helps parents with learning difficulties manage home dangers, accidents and childhood illness.
We train groups of professionals to deliver the program. This training gives professionals the tools to support parents with learning difficulties in the home and covers topics such understanding sickness and health, the doctor and introduction to home safety.
Enquire about group training for this program