This is a website for three groups of people.
1. People who have a learning disability
2. Their families and carers
3. Professionals and those supporting people and families
This website aims to cover lots of topics relating to mental health for people who have a learning disability.
Have a look through website or keep scrolling down this page for more information.
(If you are looking for the Candle Resource click here. This will take you to the Candle download page.)
The Dec 08 newsletter is now available from the newsletter page click to go to the page.
A good place to start with this website is the Checklists page. The checklists will help you to get the information you are looking for from the website. This page also has a PowerPoint presentation given at Learning Disability Today on the 27th November which people may find useful.
This website now comes with Browsealoud. This means you can hear the words on the website. Follow this link for more information Browsealoud page.
We will try to make the information as easy to understand as possible.
The website has lots of images that aim to help with this understanding. These images were the ones people liked best when we tested them.
Each section of the website will have an easy to read Introduction page.
These can be found in the menu at the top of each page.
These pages will have direction buttons to help getting around the website.
The Introduction pages on the website will outline what the other pages in the section say.
Each individual page on the website will start with a line or two of easy to read information.
These will be in boxes coloured like this one.
As you work down each page the words used will become more complex.
We will still try to keep the details as simple as possible.
The Introduction pages for each section are a good place to start on this website.
We suggest that people work through this information together and talk about it.
There are a number of links to more websites, resources, files and more on the pages.
Links are shown when the text colour changes and are underlined.
To help people get around the website there are some simple arrows on the easier to read pages like the ones below.
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We hope you will find this website useful.
If there are things missing or that you don’t understand then please tell us and we will try and make it better.
This website will hopefully grow over time but its important we make sure that it is meeting your questions and needs.
You can increase the size of the text on this website making it easier to read by clicking on the text size you want at the top left of the page.
If you cannot find what you are looking for on this website then try and contact us and we will do our best to reply.
We know that some people do not have internet access.
It is up to local organisations and professionals to print out this information for these people.
The Clear Thoughts project does not have the resources to offer this service
The organisations with their logos on this page support the Clear Thoughts website - clicking on their logos will take you to their own websites.
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