Rapport with people with learning disabilities - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 11
About This Presentation
Title:

Rapport with people with learning disabilities

Description:

Rapport with people with learning disabilities. Putting Theory into Practice ... What can we learn from rapport. Ability of the interviewee to give an account ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:30
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 12
Provided by: kerrym1
Category:

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: Rapport with people with learning disabilities


1
Investigative Interviewing
Rapport with people with learning
disabilities Putting Theory into Practice
2
Objectives
Achieving Best Evidence Interviewing of
vulnerable witnesses (Including children) in
criminal proceedings (Home Office 2002) Issues
related to rapport in practice Video
clips Conclusion
3
Achieving Best Evidence (Home Office 2002)
  • Focus on their ability not their disability
  • Practice suggests that 20 minutes is maximum
    period of concentration
  • When discussing neutral topics the need for a
    full account
  • Gathering information on particular traits,
    behaviour and concepts

4
Issues
  • Social communication and disability
  • Social conversation can be taken literally
  • Compliance
  • Acquiescence

5
Teach to talk
  • Teach the interviewee about a conversation with a
    purpose
  • Equality and empowerment
  • Empathy and reducing anxiety
  • Assess the communication abilities
  • Effective use of notes
  • Enabling an effective environment
  • Practice interview

6
What can we learn from rapport
  • Ability of the interviewee to give an account
  • Confirmation of particular issues
  • Concept of number
  • Concept of colour
  • Sentence structure
  • Detail in free recall
  • types of questions
  • Compliance and acquiescence

7
Video
Julie is a learning disabled adult and attends a
day centre. Video removed from version
made public.
8
Preparation for Free narrative
  • Instructional link from rapport
  • The structure of the free narrative
  • Issues of anxiety or emotion

9
Video clip
  • In this clip the interviewer has reminded
    Julie of the quality and quantity of information
    she gave in rapport and the need for the same in
    the free narrative.
  • Video removed from public version.

10
Conclusion
  • Plan the rapport
  • Establish the communication needs of the
    interviewee
  • Link the rapport to the needs of the free
    narrative

11
  • Questions ?
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com