Who are we?

Our Community Teams for People with Learning Disabilities (CTPLD) are a group of multi-disciplinary health professionals that provide extra care and specialised health support to some adults from the age of 18 with learning disabilities needs. Please note we are not an integrated team with social services.

Professionals in our teams include:

  • Community Nurses
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Physiotherapists
  • Speech and Language Therapists
  • Podiatrists
  • Art Therapists
  • Dieticians
  • Clinical Health Assistants

What we do

We provide specialist health assessment, interventions, and treatments for adults with learning disabilities who are unable to access mainstream healthcare services.

We work together with partner agencies such as local social services and care managers, other Surrey & Borders teams and services, and organisations that provide services to support people who use our services.

We can help people to:

  • Be as healthy as they can.
  • Manage complex mental health issues.
  • Manage any behaviours that may put themselves or others at risk.
  • Understand and live well with long-term conditions such as diabetes, asthma, and epilepsy.
  • Manage any physical and mobility problems.
  • Identify and improve their communication.
  • Eat, drink, and swallow safely.
  • Understand their additional needs such as autism spectrum disorders and what we can do to help.
  • Understand their feelings, relationships, and psychological issues such as anxiety and depression.
  • Understand and improve the activities they can do during the day to stay happy and healthy as well as improving or maintaining their independence.
  • Access services through reasonable adjustments, desensitization, etc.

Find out more information on what we do here


Find out more about Learning Disabilities

A person with learning disabilities will have:

  • A significantly reduced ability to understand new or complex information and to learn new skills, this is known as impaired intelligence.
  • A reduced ability to cope independently, this is known as impaired social functioning.

These will have started before adulthood, with a lasting effect on development. This does not include conditions like dyslexia, which causes a specific difficulty with one type of skill but not a wider intellectual impairment.

Websites:

  • MENCAP - provide information on Learning Disabilities and the challenges someone may face.
  • Department of Health - provide information on reasonable adjustments.