Training

Using digital tools to support people with mental or cognitive disabilities

training

Digital tools | Initial training

Duration

2 days

Public

Professionals

Rate

2700€ EXCL. TAX

Training presentation

Using digital tools to support people with mental or cognitive disabilities

 

Course duration

2 days or 14h

 

Target audience

Professionals working with people with autism, cognitive disorders and/or intellectual development disorders in medical-social establishments.

Prerequisites

Trainees must have acquired basic knowledge of how to support people with autism, cognitive disorders and/or intellectual development disorders.

 

Rate

2700€ EXCL. TAX

Contents

  • Presentation of the various digital devices and necessary adaptations
  • Identification of the advantages and limitations of digital technology and recommendations for its use
  • Discover digital solutions by theme: hands-on activities, content creation, identification of pedagogical methods for implementation.
  • Integrate digital technology into the life of the person being supported and draw up an individual digital usage program.
  • Deploying digital tools in a medical-social establishment: the steps involved

Pedagogical objectives

  • Discover the theoretical foundations and range of digital solutions for people with mental or cognitive disabilities
  • Identify the advantages and limitations of digital tools for supporting people with mental and/or cognitive disabilities, and possible adaptations.
  • Handle several solutions through workshops to understand how they work and their scope of use.
  • Benefit from the insight of experienced users through testimonials and use cases
  • Master the process of building an individual digital usage program: choosing tools, personalizing them and developing them according to the beneficiary’s profile and needs.

The trainers

Dr Julie Renaud Mierzejewski
Dr Julie Renaud Mierzejewski Docteur en neurosciences - Responsable pédagogique Auticiel formations
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Kathleen Deleau Psychologue
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Mathilde Roger
Vanessa Coutant ÉDUCATRICE SPÉCIALISÉE - FORMATRICE - CHARGÉE D'ACCOMPAGNEMENT
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Honorine Durant Psychologue certifiée en analyse du comportement
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Amélie Bérard Sudupe Éducatrice spécialisée - Formatrice - Chargée d'accompagnement
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Clémence Le Tutour Formatrice - Chargée d'accompagnement
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Dr Séverine Estival Docteur en Psychologie - Responsable scientifique - Formatrice & Chargée d'accompagnement
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Terms and conditions of access

Access to this training is generally initiated by the establishment.
A discussion with our teams will enable us to analyze needs, adjust content to trainee profiles, check pre-requisites and, if necessary, identify situations requiring adaptations.

Dates and times will be determined by mutual agreement between the parties involved.

Access time: maximum 3 months after first contact.

PROGRAM DAY 1

INTRODUCTION

Tour de table

Introducing the speaker, the professionals and formulating expectations

Discovering the benefits of digital technology

  • The benefits and limits of digital support for people with disabilities
  • Scientific foundations of the contribution of digital tools and review of the literature
  • Best practices and recommendations for use

 

MODULE 1: Overview of digital devices

Using computers to support people with disabilities

  • Discovery, advantages and limitations
  • Possible and/or necessary adaptations

Touch screens and tablets to support people with disabilities

  • Discovering touch interfaces
  • Review of devices studied in the scientific literature
  • Standard tablet features and settings
  • Presentation of tablets developed for disability compensation

Opportunities offered by robotics

  • Scientific validation of the benefits of using robots to support people with disabilities
  • How to use

Feedback

MODULE 2 Choosing and adapting the digital tool to the person being supported

Choosing a digital tool

– Criteria and areas for adaptation

– Integration into the person’s project: establishing an individual digital usage program

– Personalization issues (sensitivity, environment, abilities, etc.)

– Rituals of use and evaluation
Ergonomics: Identify and try to remove obstacles to the use of a digital tool for a person with a mental or cognitive disability.

– Description and assessment of fine motor disorders

– Description and assessment of visual perceptual disorders

– Adapting the tool to the type of disorder

MODULE 3 – Tool discovery and manipulation (thematic approach) – Part 1

Alternating theoretical content, presentation of use cases, practical exercises, hands-on experience, group workshops and feedback.

For each theme:

  • Presentation of the theme and HAS recommendations for good practice
  • Digital solutions presentation
  • In which contexts, for which profiles and in which ways to use these tools
  • Case studies (videos and testimonials)
  • Manipulations, creation of educational content, practical exercises, group workshops and feedback sessions

Theme 1: Getting to grips with digital technology

Theme 2: Developing independent leisure activities

Theme 3: Social interaction and emotion recognition

PROGRAM DAY 2

MODULE 3 – Tool discovery and manipulation (thematic approach) – Part 2

Alternating theoretical content, presentation of use cases, practical exercises, hands-on experience, group workshops and feedback.

For each theme:

  • Presentation of the theme and HAS recommendations for good practice
  • Digital solutions presentation
  • In which contexts, for which profiles and in which ways to use these tools
  • Case studies (videos and testimonials)
  • Manipulations, creation of educational content, practical exercises, group workshops and feedback sessions

 

Theme 4: Communication

Theme 5: Time reference points

Theme 6: Learning the basics

MODULE 4 – Using digital technology to support caregivers and share practices

  • Introducing and discovering the TSARA application
  • Introducing the Applications-autisme.com collaborative platform
    • Getting to grips with the tool: registration, search and referencing exercises.

Profile search exercises

MODULE 5 – Defining the school’s digital project

  • Project framework : Beneficiaries and objectives, Professionals involved, Digital referents
  • Elements of the pedagogical project : motivations, expectations, integration framework, current operations, setting up an internal organization
  • Change management : Key factors for a successful digital project – Description of the phases of a pilot project

 

CONCLUSION

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