🔎 What Are Support Needs Assessments? Quiz for student nurses, doctors, social workers, teachers' carers etc

 

Support needs assessments check what you can do by yourself and what you need help with.
They are used in:

• Schools and colleges (to give extra help in learning).

• Health and social care (to plan support at home, in the community, or at work).

• Disability benefits and workplace adjustments.

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🏠 Daily Living Skills Often Checked

These assessments often look at:

• Cooking – Can you cook a hot meal safely? Do you need help with chopping, using the oven, or timing food?

• Eating & drinking – Can you feed yourself, use cutlery, and make healthy choices?

• Washing & dressing – Can you shower, brush teeth, get dressed in the right clothes for the weather?

• Managing money – Can you pay for things, budget, or understand bills?

• Travel – Can you use buses/trains safely? Do you need help planning journeys?

• Medication – Can you remember and take medicine safely?

• Safety – Do you know what to do in an emergency (fire, stranger danger, health issue)?

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  📘 Easy Read Quiz: Special Needs Support & Accessibility

  ❓ Questions (for learners)

  1. What does “support needs” mean?
     a) Things people can do easily
     b) Help people may need in daily life
     c) A kind of food

  2. Which of these is an example of a support need?
     a) Cooking a hot meal
     b) Playing football
     c) Singing

  3. Why is accessible information important?
     a) So only teachers can understand it
     b) So everyone, including people with learning disabilities, can understand
     c) So books look more colourful

  4. Who can help check a person’s support needs?
     a) Nurses, carers, and families
     b) Only the police
     c) Only friends

  5. Which of these is a good way to make information accessible?
     a) Using long words and small writing
     b) Using plain language, big text, and pictures
     c) Hiding information

  6. What does “person-centred” support mean?
     a) Everyone gets the same support
     b) Support is planned around each person’s needs and choices
     c) Only doctors decide support

  7. What should service providers (like schools, hospitals, or care services) do?
     a) Communicate clearly and in accessible ways
     b) Ignore what people say
     c) Give the same leaflet to everyone, no matter what

  8. Why is it important to value people with learning disabilities?
     a) Because they have no skills
     b) Because they bring creativity, ideas, and strengths
     c) Because they cannot work

• mmunication – Do you need help to explain needs, read letters, or use the phone?