Learning Disabilities
Learning Disabilities
A learning disability is related to how a person’s brain works.
It can make it harder for someone to learn, understand, or do everyday things—like making friends, managing money, or doing jobs at home.
People with a learning disability may need more time to learn new things. They might also need support to understand difficult information or communicate with others.
With the right support, many people with a learning disability can live independently and lead fulfilling lives.
SortedSupported is available in Easy Read so that people can read about different mental health and wellbeing topics.
Do you support an Adult with a learning disability?
Here are some links to more information:
The Challenging Behaviour Foundation
CBF offer information about challenging behaviour to anyone who provides support to a child, young person or adult with a severe learning disability. They can signpost you to other specialist organisations and sources of support.
The wellbeing of the whole family is of paramount importance to harmony and happiness. CBF’s resources provide advice and tips on how to keep everyone well – parents, siblings and children.
- Email: support@thecbf.org.uk
- Phone: 0300 666 0126
Swansea Carers Centre – Parent Carers
Swansea Carers Centre provides support for carers in Swansea regardless of your age or who you support. We also provide group support to parent-carers of young people aged 14–25 with a disability or illness who are moving from child to adult services in Swansea.
- Email: admin@swanseacarerscentre.org.uk
- Phone: 01792 653344
Neath Port Talbot Carers Service
Neath Port Talbot Carers Service focuses on supporting unpaid carers in Neath and Port Talbot. Offering counselling, carers assessments, advice and guidance.
- Email: information@nptcarers.org.uk
- Phone: 01639 642277
African Community Centre (ACC) – Carer’s Journey
Open to all ethnicities and ages, providing support to unpaid young carers or anyone caring for a family member living in Swansea or Neath Port Talbot.
- Email: edith@africancommunitycentre.org.uk
- Phone: 0330 229 2995 / 07826 596900
Joining the Dots Together
An online community and support forum for parent carers of children, young people, or adults with additional needs, offering a space to share advice regarding health, social care, education, and daily challenges.
- Email: jtdtogether@gmail.com
Support Additional Needs – S.A.N. Neath and District
A volunteering group of parent carers supporting families with loved ones with additional needs, hosting coffee mornings, guest speakers, health and wellbeing sessions, and family events throughout the year.
A Carer’s Guide to Depression in People with a Learning Disability
Provides “A Carer’s Guide to Depression in People with a Learning Disability”.
Choice Support – Resources for Staff, Supporters & Family Members
Offers resources on topics including relationships, sex, sexuality, intimacy, sexual abuse, capacity, and consent for staff, supporters, and family members.
Choice Support – Easy Read Leaflets & Picture Banks
Contains EasyRead leaflets, image collections, and picture banks for people with learning disabilities and/or autism to facilitate discussions around love, sex, relationships, and sexuality.
Are you a sibling to a person with a learning disability?
Here are some links to places that might offer some support
Sibs (for brothers and sisters of disabled children and adults)
A UK charity representing the needs of siblings (brothers or sisters) of disabled people, who often have a lifelong need for information, experience social and emotional isolation, and have to cope with difficult situations.
YMCA Swansea – Swansea Young Carers Service
YMCA Swansea provides tailored support to Young Carers aged 8–18 who may provide care for a family member with a long-term illness, disability, mental health condition, and/or dependency on substance use.
- Email: info@ymcaswansea.org.uk
- Phone: 01792 652032
Swansea Carers Centre – Swansea Young Adult Carers
Gives Young Adult Carers aged 16–25 years a chance to meet with others in a similar situation, learn new things, and take a well-deserved break from their caring roles.
- Email: admin@swanseacarerscentre.org.uk
- Phone: 01792 653344
NPT Council – Young Carers Service
Offers a range of support to children and young people up to the age of 25 who have a caring role at home, with options for provision for carers over the age of 18.
- Email: spoc@npt.gov.uk
- Phone: 01639 686802