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Kingwood’s
mission is to - pioneer best practice, which
acknowledges and promotes the potential of people with significant learning disabilities
or autism or whose needs are challenging.
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A registered charity since November
1994, Kingwood has worked steadily to provide a new approach to support. In ordinary
houses, close to local shops and services,
individuals and small groups of people are helped to live together and to develop
interests and skills through which they may begin to gain in self confidence and
reduce their need to challenge.
Kingwood believes
that every person has the right to a rewarding life within the community. A number
of people however will have great difficulty living in society, with the demands
and pressures this inevitably brings. This is especially true for people with autism,
who find it extremely difficult to cope with the world around them. For this reason
they will often resort to what is seen as anti social or difficult behaviour.
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A traditional response to this problem
has been to keep people in a locked ward. Kingwood has developed a very different
approach. By carefully assessing the individual's specific needs, and then working
patiently with them, our skilled staff help them to make sense of what goes on around
them, and to explore their own potential for personal development. Kingwood provides
a wide range of activities, and real encouragement for the person to follow their
own individual interests.
All of this contributes
to the key goal of providing a full life within the community, with the dignity
and sense of fulfillment this can bring.
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