Living in a stimulating environment

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Living in a stimulating environment

• Dublin, July 2009
• Anyta van Arnhem
• Kirsten Cocx

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Its a small world after all
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Multiple disability

• Impact on the learning process

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XS 4 all

• Creating conditions

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• What do we see?

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Vision regarding support

• Every person is capable of development
• A person develops in relation to his environment
• Crucial role for family and supervisors

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Working together

• Cliënt
• Autonomy
• Parent Professional
• loyality professionality

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Pedagogic climate

• Learning together
• and
• Everybody plays his part..

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NICO

• 40 years old, blind, intellectual disability

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Nicos wish-list

• Do not take over too much from me
• Really listen
• More time to do things because I experience
  stress really fast
• Do not disturb me with common things when Im in
  my room

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Staff training

• Specially engaged coach
• Video-analysis

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Coaching sessions

• Improve quality of interaction
• Analyse non-verbal behavior
• Conversation techniques
• Offering new experiences

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Training-days

• Underlying methods and theories
• Transactional Analysis
• Own initiative Model
• Active support
• Cognitive stimulation
• Conversation techniques
• Task analyses

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Coaching parents

• Daring to let go
• Taking more risks

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Changes in proces

• Barriers
• Emphasising awareness
• Tuning into the tiniest signals and focusing on
  the small things

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Changes Nico experienced

• The ability to do things for himself
• To go at his own pace
• More sincere attention and being listened to
• Being part of his own household
• Feeling more involved with the other residents by
  helping eachother
• New experiences beyond the beaten track
• Feel more challenged
• Free to venture opinions
• Trying new aids
• Experience new possibilities

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Like Nico there are others

• This is Erik

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Living in a stimulating environment

• Ordinary or extraordinary?