Loss, Change & Bereavement
Sensitive support is crucial to anyone who has experienced loss (e.g. transition) and bereavement (death of a person). This section contains information, resources and tools about loss and bereavement support specifically for people with a learning disability.
Stories of Loss
This poster creatively explores the impact of stroke on a husband and wife, clicking the speech bubbles makes the poster ‘talk’.
When Someone You Know Has Died
When someone you know has died - people with learning disabilities supporting each other.
This booklet is the outcome of funded, collaborative work with advocacy groups in Stoke and Wrexham. It is designed in a workbook format, to encourage people with a learning disability to support each other following loss.
Loved and Lost
Voice is a self-advocacy group in Wrexham with whom we have been working together with for two years, in conjunction with Reach, Asist, Staffordshire. They have supported a number of people with a learning disability and worked alongside an animation facilitator to develop an animated film around loss, entitled ‘Loved and Lost’ This is a delightful short film that is very powerful and illustrates well the impact of loss and the experiences of people with a learning disability experiencing many losses, including the loss of a pet. The animation makes the film quite unique and different, and as medium works well in this context. Voice have kindly given us permission to have access to the film on our website to maximise the potential for its usage.
Conversations About Death and What it Means
This was the one of the outcomes of a collaborative research project between Keele University and Cardiff University (Todd & Read, 2010). The aim of this qualitative research study was to explore the understandings that people with a learning disability had around loss, dying and death. The primary outcomes of this research were depicted in this film and translated into short vignettes, portrayed by actors with a learning disability.
