Connecticut Parents with Differing Cognitive Abilities Workgroup

IDENTIFYING AND WORKING WITH PARENTS WITH DIFFERING COGNITIVE ABILITIES

 

 

The Connecticut Parents with Differing Cognitive Abilities Workgroup has developed a training to assist providers in identifying and working more effectively with parents with cognitive limitations and their children. The objectives of this training are to:

1. Gain a greater understanding of "executive functioning" and the implications of limitations in functioning;

2. awareness of the needs of parents with cognitive limitations;

3. Improve the identification and assessment of parents with cognitive limitations and their families; and

4. Identify strategies

 

Training Agenda:

• Executive functioning and implications of limitations

• Challenges to service providers regarding working with these families

  • Assessment tools

  • The parents: Who are they?

  • The impact of parental cognitive limitations on the development of children

  • Intervention strategies

 

 

Participants will learn through lecture, audio-visual materials, and small group discussion.  The training is delivered by an interdisciplinary team. Trainees represent child welfare, and providers of services related to family support; substance abuse and behavioral health, child care, workforce development; etc. CEUs for social workers are available.