Donate now: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/amyllewellyn?utm_term=qd9anvRKJ I am sure many of you will know Amy, but in case you don’t, this is Amy, a resident at CCL's Church View home. Due to Amy’s Cerebral Palsy, she is not able to use speech. She is an excellent and highly motivated communicator and does a fantastic job of using sounds [...]
Today, Laura Conway, our Lead Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, held Induction Communication Training at our Grafton Centre. Laura led the group through various aspects of communication, covering the importance of being able to communicate and a range of ways to do so with our learners and residents, such as Intensive Interaction and Makaton. [...]
Today, we are celebrating Laura, our Lead Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, who recently qualified as a Dysphagia Practitioner. Dysphagia is the medical term used to describe swallowing difficulties (NHS, 2021). To celebrate Laura’s latest achievements, we sat down with her to discuss her career. Let’s take a look at her story… Laura started [...]
10 Year Service Awards On Friday 23rd July, we celebrated another four members of our team reaching 10 years of service at CCL. Vikki Pryce, our Chief Executive, hosted the morning awards, accompanied by CCL’s Executive Group and tea, coffee and, most importantly, cake! For those of you who aren’t aware, we started our 10 [...]
CCL’s Celebration Day 2021 On Wednesday 21st July, we hosted our CCL Celebration Day. Whilst we would have loved to all celebrate together in person, with the rise in COVID cases, we did not feel it was safe enough to do so. Therefore, similar to last year, we held the Celebration Day via Zoom, with [...]
Take a look at CCL's June 2021 highlights: CCL e-Newsletter June 2021
As many of you may know, Church View have had a garden cat for years. One day he just showed up in the garden and has never left! He is a black and white cat and the ladies have named him Socks. They all love him at Church View, especially Hollie, and they even asked [...]
June is Pride month - a month dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ communities all around the world. To celebrate Pride month, the Wheatlands hosted a Pride themed day. The team and residents got dressed up in colourful outfits and put face paint on! They also decorated the house and took part in some pride themed arts [...]
Update: Thursday 24th June As I am sure many of you know, last week was Learning Disability Week. To celebrate, Hannah and Emma from Church View signed 'You've got a friend in me' in Makaton. Take a look: https://youtu.be/w3lkQbbyR5U http://youtu.be/w3lkQbbyR5U Update: Tuesday 22nd June 2021 Last week was #LearningDisabilityWeek. This year it [...]
This week is #CarersWeek. Carers Week occurs annually, aiming to raise awareness of caring and highlight the challenges carers face throughout the UK – particularly unpaid carers. Although, our carers are not unpaid, they go above and beyond for the young people we care for. Therefore, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to celebrate some of [...]
