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Our commitment is to ensure that:<\/strong><\/p>\n To achieve this, PAMIS <\/em>offers families:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n PAMIS<\/em> is a voluntary organisation and registered charity with a board of governors.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Children and adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities have a great contribution to make, if only we take time and listen to them.\u00a0 PAMIS<\/em> works with families to try to make sure that they have community opportunities and can enjoy a full life – by opening doors and minds.<\/p>\n People with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) are amongst the most disadvantaged in society.\u00a0 Although there is no nationally or internationally agreed definition<\/strong> of PMLD it is agreed that they have a range of complex needs, which include; a profound learning\u00a0 disability as well as a\u00a0 physical disability that seriously affects their ability to undertake everyday tasks\u00a0and is likely to limit their mobility. The majority are therefore life-long wheelchair users.\u00a0 They are also likely to have sensory impairments with either vision or hearing\u00a0affected, and in a proportion, limitations to both senses.\u00a0 A significant number also have epilepsy.\u00a0 Their communication is usually non verbal though some have limited speech.\u00a0 However, all have the capacity to communicate in a variety of ways.\u00a0 Their healthcare needs are\u00a0complex and may be life threatening. Areas of particular difficulty relate to respiration, eating and drinking (dysphagia) and cerebral palsy.\u00a0 Some will also have challenging behaviour.\u00a0 Family carers routinely carry out intensive 24-hour care programmes to provide support and a good quality of life for their daughter\/son.<\/p>\n Their priority therefore is to provide support to family carers and this is carried out through our dedicated Family Support Service<\/a>, by co-ordinators in Tayside, Grampian, South Lanarkshire, Fife and Greater Glasgow and Clyde. They also provide additional intensive support to family carers through the difficult and often stressful period of transition from children to adult services through the Futures<\/a> Project.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Information and Library Service<\/a> is based at the head office in Dundee and\u00a0provides specialist advice and information\u00a0on all areas\u00a0concerning\u00a0complex disabilities.\u00a0There is also an extensive library which\u00a0lends resources across Scotland.<\/p>\n Finally they have a number of leisure projects to promote accessible leisure activities for people with profound and multiple disabilities – the Freestyles Project<\/a>, SOMA<\/a> in Dundee and Accessible Leisure <\/a>in Glasgow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Registered Charity: 1011895, Scottish Charity Register: CO38601, Company Limited by Guarantee No: 2717020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PAMIS was established in 1992 to provide support for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD), their family and carers and interested professionals. Aims Our commitment is to ensure that: people with profound and multiple learning disabilities are valued both as individuals and in the contribution they make to the community they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1349,"parent":490,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1372\/revisions\/1712"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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