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| Work experience |
 We have been offering work experience sessions
to adults with profound learning disabilities since 2000. Each course
usually lasts 6 months and involves one day per week in our workshop,
using every hand and power tool hand-over-hand with one of our Craft
Artists. Their care managers are often amazed with their ability to
focus their attention and, with support, to grasp and use tools for
long periods. They also acquire some skills in tool use, which is
unexpected in people whose mental age is below eighteen months. At the
end of the course they have made their own story-pack to keep. Comments
from care managers have included: "It's something that Susan can
actually do, she's really interested and there are no services
available for her at the Day Centre" and "Tom loved it and we often use
the story he made - when will he be coming back?" |
