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CHC08 Disability Behaviour Support Skill Set
Facilitator Guide
Individual Plans
Intellectual disability
(ID)
An umbrella term used in this competency to describe the plans
for clients, which include Service Delivery Plans, Individual
Personal Plans, Personal Development Plans and Care Plans.
These plans include a client’s long-term and short-term goals,
augmentative and alternative communication strategies,
behaviour support and responses which address their needs and
aims to improve their quality of life.
There are three core features that people must have in order to
receive a diagnosis of intellectual disability:
1. An IQ score of less than 70.
2. Difficulties with adaptive skills such as following directions
and understanding abstract concepts.
3. The existence of the first two characteristics before the
age of 18.
Last resort
Learning styles –
auditory
Learning styles –
kinaesthetic
Learning styles –
visual
Least restrictive
alternative
An emergency response which is used because the crisis
response strategies are not working. These include selfprotection
strategies. Last resort can also include restrictive
practices, which cannot be implemented without informed
consent as they are a restriction of a person’s freedom, or an
intrusion on their dignity.
Learn through listening and talking.
Learn through touching and moving.
Learn through seeing what they need to learn.
A practice or intervention which creates the least restrictive
option to prevent harm to the client and is applied no longer than
is necessary to manage an identified risk.
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