Enabling Capable Environments Using Practice Leadership: A Unique Framework for Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Carers

This handbook promotes a perspective shift within learning disability services that aims to move the focus of professional support away from diagnosis and identifying what someone cannot do, towards assessing and supporting strengths and providing opportunities and resources to enhance people’s quality of life. Designed to be used both by facilitators and as a self-study guide for those who support people with intellectual disabilities, Enabling Capable Environments will provide direction to enhance practitioners’ skills and develop a more collaborative, hands-on leadership approach. The authors set out a unique framework that outlines the critical approaches that underpin enabling capable environments and how these can be implemented successfully.

Nadia Khan is a Behaviour Analyst and is a Positive Behaviour Support Manager at the Richmond Fellowship Scotland. Nadia has a background in adult social care, residential school settings, and individual support within family homes. Martin Reilly is the Positive Behaviour Support Lead with the National Autistic Society in Scotland. He has supported the development of the National PBS team within the NAS, and has 15 years’ experience working with autistic people and those with learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge. Linda Hume is a Registered Nurse for Learning Disability and is a part time co-ordinator at The Challenging Behaviour Foundation and Lecturer at the University of Stirling. Her teaching and research focus on working with families and supporting organisations implement evidence-based person-centred approaches.