Examining and advancing best practice in gaining meaningful feedback from children and young people with learning disabilities and their families
CORC are excited to be a collaborator on this British Psychological Society (BPS) funded project. Currently there is no clear consensus about the best ways to measure outcomes and gain meaningful feedback from children and young people with learning disabilities and their families. It is recognised that children and young people with learning disabilities experience higher rates of emotional and behavioural challenges, but are under-represented in research, which emphasises the importance of this project.
The aim of the project is to advance and grow ‘best practice’ in gathering feedback and using outcome measures with children and young people with learning disabilities (CYP-LD), their families and networks and is built on previous work in this field completed in 2015. Collaborators will be examining existing data to better understand the use of outcome measures with CYP-LD as well as working with service users and participation groups to gather feedback and deepen understanding.
CORC will host and participate in the project. Jeni McElwee, Neil Phillips and Ro Rossiter, from the BPS’s Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) Children, Young People and their Families Faculty LD Network will be leading project strands, with Professor Eric Emerson also collaborating.