Supported decision-making

Aims

This module aims to improve understanding of:

• What we mean by supported decision-making
• The effects of removing the right of women with learning disabilities to make their own decisions
• How to support women with learning disabilities who have been affected by gender-based violence, to make their own informed decisions.

 

Learning outcomes

By completing this module, you will have a better understanding of:

• How to support women with learning disabilities to make informed decisions, express their views, and have those views and decisions respected.
• How to avoid making assumptions about a person’s capacity to make their own decisions.
•  Issues around decision-making and risk and how they apply to women with learning disabilities.