Needs Assessment in Education

This assignment focuses on the crucial concept of needs assessment, examining its significance and application in various fields. It delves into how needs assessments are conducted in educational settings, particularly for children with autism spectrum disorders, highlighting the importance of understanding specific learning needs. The assignment also explores the role of needs assessment in health information technology, emphasizing the need for eHealth literacy to effectively utilize these systems. Further examples include analyzing the needs of college students in English courses and exploring the needs of families impacted by conflict and those providing care for individuals with dementia.

UNDERSTANDING
SPECIFIC NEEDS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Analyse concept of health, illness and disability in relation to users of health and social
care..............................................................................................................................................1
1.2 Assessment of change in perception of specific needs with course of time.........................2
1.3 Impact of legislation, social policy and culture on service delivery to user.........................3
2.1 Care needs of individual with specific needs........................................................................3
2.2 Current system for individual with specific needs................................................................4
2.3 Evaluation of services available in a chosen locality for individual specific needs.............5
PART 2............................................................................................................................................6
4.1 Different concept of challenging behaviour..........................................................................6
4.2 Potential impact of challenging behaviour on health and social care context......................6
4.3 Strategies for working with challenging behaviour..............................................................7
PART 3............................................................................................................................................8
3.1 Approaches and interventions which are related with individual specific needs..................8
3.2 Effectiveness of intervention strategies with specific needs.................................................9
3.3 Potential impact of emerging development in support with specific needs........................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Every individual have different requirement which are associated with their life spam.
These needs have to get satisfied by delivering appropriate quality based services to users. Every
person have specific needs whether it is related with luxury or with health and social care
context. Organisations have to take such consent in account and then render services by
understanding specific requirements. This project is based on understanding of specific needs in
relation with health and social care context. Wellington hospital is identify as a major entity
whom are providing better and effective quality based services to users in order to fulfil their
needs properly (Barnoux and Wood, 2013). For such perspective, professionals first have to
understand about health, illness and disability along with change in perception with specific
needs. Moreover, for this context, every organisation providing services to fulfil this scenario.
There are different number of challenging behaviour are identify which are related with each and
every person. Thus, its potential impact will going to analyse properly for preparing appropriate
strategies. Moreover, approaches and interventions which are related with business and its
specialisation get analyse properly.
PART 1
1.1 Analyse concept of health, illness and disability in relation to users of health and social care
It is necessary for every health and social care organisation to better understand about
concept of health, illness and disability or behaviour which are associated with a person. The
word health refer to as the complete emotional and physical wellbeing. There are different
healthcare exist whom enable in maintain optimal state of well in environment which is essential.
It is not associated with absence of diseases but to recover in more optimum manner compared to
previous one (Burns and Grove, 2011). Thus, health and social care service providers have to
understand the concept of health, illness, disability and behaviour properly in order to fulfil
needs of various human beings. Health: According to World Health Organisation whom clearly state about health in
1948 which implies that “Health is a complete state of physical, mentally and social
wellbeing not just absence of diseases” (Health: What does good health really mean?,
2017). Health and social care organisations have to provide proper services to their
ultimate user by analysing the kind of health for which they are suffering. Mainly, there
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are two type of health related issues are identify which are: Physical health and mental
health. Illness: Diseases are such malfunctions which directly made a vast impact on individual
health and destroy the good health body (Health and Disease, 2016). Some illness is
related with body for short period of time which is consider as acute disease on the other
hand chronic illness are for long term context. Thus, health and social care associations
have to understand this fact properly and deliver services as per requirement.
 Disability: A disability in an individual is one under which more than two impairments
are identify at a specific point of time. Sometimes some individual are not be capable to
analyse every sort of communication properly which affect their health. Hence, HSC
have to better understand such constitutes and then take appropriate steps for overcoming
to them (Callister and Rethwisch, 2012).
1.2 Assessment of change in perception of specific needs with course of time
Every person have distinct perception of specific needs as well as they are changing with
a course of time as well. Thus, health and social care organisations have to assess every person
needs and requirement accordance to time frame and then deliver quality based work to them.
The world is getting changed and with that their values, perception and needs are also getting
modify accordingly. Individual whom are related with more specific needs are suffering from
vulnerability to get harm, derived, exploitation and violation than other and normal people in
community. Appropriate actions have to be carried down in relation to such vulnerability
otherwise it will lead to create a serious cause which directly create negative consequences on
the life of well-being and their ability to access basic human right get impacted as well.
The care needs of individual are getting changed with a course of time which are:
 In traditional period of time people whom are suffering from serious cause did not get
proper services and get torture as well. But with time course when culture and beliefs of
people also get modify such needs become more accurate with time. Many people
required proper services according to care needs through doctors (De Mooij, 2013).
 Many people do not get proper treatment in older time period but according to present
context, many new technologies are introduce whom enable in identifying a cure for
every associated disability of an individual.
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 Sometime such people do not able to make the information and circumstances reveal in
front of others. But change in custom and values increase chances of make everything
aware to HSC so that they become able to gain benefits of services.
1.3 Impact of legislation, social policy and culture on service delivery to user
Health and social care organisations have to deliver the quality based services to every
user in order to compile their working with legislations, social policy and culture beliefs. All
such acts and things have to get followed properly by authority so that they are going to conduct
the things properly and in an appropriate framework as well. All such things made a vast impact
on service delivery process otherwise user have a right to sue against such HSC. Wellington
Hospital have to take such context in account and then deliver quality based services.
Various laws which formulate in relation to delivery of services are as follow:
 Equality act, 2006 stated that Health care entity have to treat their each and every patient
equally without making any sort of differentiation between them. Every individual have
different specific needs and thus services have to get render according such manner
which lead to satisfied them as well cure their disability. This will made a positive
impact on users and services provider as well chances of image harm get reduce.
 Services have to get deliver on the basis of organisational culture which signifies that
every culture respondents are equal in nature (DePoy and Gitlin, 2015). Thus, this will
support in reducing chances of discrimination between each and every users. Respect all
culture is a major thing in every service sector entity which facilitate more appropriate
working.
 Along with this, HSC have to take care about social policies under which management
have to recruit such candidate whom have proper knowledge and work in an ethical
manner as well. By combining the work with policies and treatments it will made a
positive impact on service deliver process under which every person specific
requirements get satisfied properly.
2.1 Care needs of individual with specific needs
Care needs are consider as specific needs of a person on which health and social care
have to take a look in more appropriate manner. This consent have to take in account properly
and then deliver services to preferred individual. Special health care needs are based on physical,
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mental, sensory etc. sort of things which require more management of medical. On the other
hand specific needs are different in nature whom have special position in society and on which
appropriate actions have to be carried down properly. According to presented case study, Baby
Peter required more care just because lack of concentration was made by health and social care
organisations on him. Along with this, his mother is not looking upon on him properly which
affect his badly and thus lead to death of Baby Peter. Hence, this stated that care needs of child
was not defined properly as well as health and social care associations get failed to deliver
quality based services (Falk, 2016).
Along with this, another example which is related with specific needs and care needs of a
individual is delivery of services to such patients whom are suffering from mental health
problem. Thus, Wellington hospital have to recruit several specialist personalities whom are
helpful in delivery of such services and overcome from mental health related problems.
Moreover, maintain healthy environment at such association which provide support in get
overcome in more frequent manner. All these things have to take in account in an appropriate
manner by implementing and delivery of services in a framework. Thus, it is essential to analyse
the care needs first and then specific needs. Moreover, Maslow theory of hierarchy will support
in analysing specific needs of an individual for providing services.
2.2 Current systems for individuals with specific needs
Health care associations have to manage their working in an appropriate manner and
make their system in such a manner through which individuals specific needs get satisfied
properly. Everything have to be well managed which enable in enhancing the user experience
more appropriate in nature (Guldberg and et. al., 2011). Wellington Hospital have good flooring
where users gain satisfactory environment so that chances of unusual contamination disease
chances get reduce.
Thus, various current system which support in evaluation of individual specific needs
constitutes about health and social care system, education system, school needs, green paper
proposal, welfare services, local authorities, transportation and special service providing system
(Kayser and et. al., 2015). Out of these three system, Wellington Hospital need to implement and
take suitable steps to support Baby P: Health and social care system: It is important to prepare and formulate appropriate
system at health and social care so that chances of better and effective services become
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possible. It get understand from the study that if health and social care adopt suitable and
appropriate steps then chances of saving Baby P get enhance in an appropriate frame. Local Authorities: Another current system which need to implement in health and social
care context is local authorities. It is important to gain and take active participation
regarding such aspect so that better and effective services get deliver. In the scenario of
Baby P, if local authority take appropriate and suitable steps then chances of recovery of
such child become possible.
 Special service providing system: Another current system which have to implement in
health and social care association is special unit. It is important to introduce and
implement special unit for all such people which need special care so that appropriate
recovery become possible. Baby P was a special care and it was really need a special
service providing system for better and effective recovery but this consent lead to get
failed.
2.3 Evaluation of services available in a chosen locality for individual specific needs
Every service sector company providing different opportunities to their ultimate user so
that they become able to improve their health. This factor have to consider in an appropriate
manner as many sort of services are provided to the ultimate users of an organisation. Wellington
Hospital is providing quality based services to their users which support in satisfying their
individuals needs and requirement. Various number of services which provided by association to
their different number of respondents are as follow: Advice: Professionals give suitable advice to the ultimate reference people so that they
are going to follow such char and overcome from diseases. Such people have good
knowledge and skills to deal with people whom are suffering from mental, physical and
other related disorders (Liu and et. al., 2011). Guidance: Provide suitable guidelines to every individual in order to analysing their
needs first. Once all requirements get determine the appropriate steps would get taken on
them. Health care practitioner prepare several charts which have to follow by individual
properly in order to meet with all needs properly.
 Counselling: Many time people are suffering from such problem like society acceptance
and fear of losing someone special. This fact required proper counselling through which
such individual get safe and appropriate advice and their mind set get changed as well.
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This process get done through professional by identify their basic needs and requirement
and give suggestion on that which support in make them comfortable in society
appropriately.
Wellington Hospital is performing all these task in an appropriate manner. This fact
supportive in dealing with meeting with all specified needs of personalities in society. Thus, such
consent have to get fulfil properly in frequent time frame which support in recovery of such
people appropriately and more conveniently.
PART 2
4.1 Different concepts of challenging behaviour
Challenging behaviour is a major thing which have to get understand in a health and
social care context. This concept have to better understand by the professional so that service
delivery concept took place in an effective manner. This consent is hard to handle because every
individual have distinct behaviour which differentiate each other. This concept get better
understand through ill health conditions, learning disabilities, aggressive behaviour,
inappropriate sexualised behaviour, etc. (Mendes and et. al., 2011). All these have to get
understand by health care practitioner on order to understand whole kind of things properly.
These people are hard to handle and harm other individuals which are surrounded by
them. Thus, it require specialised skills to deal with them properly as many health care
associations are hard to handle. Various challenging behaviour elements are described as follow: Self-injurious behaviour: Such sort of people are hard to handle because they provide
harm to oneself by hitting their head on walls, cutting their hands etc. These people are
psycho in nature and never got fear to reflect harm on others. Hence, such people require
more appropriate strategies and techniques to get handle out which enable in take care of
them with more appropriate frame manner. Along with this, special care homes get
developed for them as well. Violence: Many individual suffering from an aggressive behaviour under which they
provide harm to others through kicking, punching etc. These are more powerful than an
average personality of body and do not able to handle by one person. Thus, with dealing
with such bodies, it require more than two people so that chances of controlling
behaviour of such people become easy.
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 Behaviour directed at property: These people steal thing and throw objects on others.
Thus, they are not appropriate for society and need more counselling and advice to take
care of them. This function get completed by providing proper knowledge to such people.
4.2 Potential impact of challenging behaviour on health and social care context
Health and social care professionals have good skills and knowledge to deal with many
problems. Hence, when they are dealing with different challenging behaviour people, their
working profile and adjust get impacted from that. Thus, they faced many obstacles to deal with
these issues and problems in a convenient manner (Morgeson, DeRue and Karam, 2010). Such
people do not get fear in providing harm to others and thus, health specialist faced fear of such
kind. It is important to understand all potential barrier of working effectively. Wellington
hospital evaluate some major concern which made a vast impact on working and consider as
major challenging behaviour for them and consider as barrier in their working:
 Financial: Sometimes several condition lead to get arise at workplace like financial crises
which restricts them to deliver quality based services. This challenging lead to made
negative impact on HSC which impacted their long term certainty.
 Legal: Another consent or challenge for Health and social care is all about change in
legislation policies of government. Wellington Hospital need to evaluate the legal aspects
changed or same in a suitable manner. This will enable them to deal with legal change as
well as its negative influences get minimise as well.
Challenging behaviour personalities need to understand themselves properly after proper
treatment and gain appropriate information regarding such consent. Potential impact of
challenging behaviour on an individual stated as:
 If a person is suffering from any kind of behaviour or cause then such individual need
more specific treatment (Niebert, Marsch and Treagust, 2012). This enables them in order
to recover things more properly and appropriately and chances of future uncertainty get
reduces
 By providing appropriate information regarding such consent enables such personality to
support others as well as themselves to maintain effective future. This support in made
positive impact on an individual personality so that better and suitable gain could be
promoted.
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4.3 Strategies for working with challenging behaviours
In health and social care context, specific need of individual have to get satisfied in an
appropriate manner. Although, many people are identify that they are suffering from challenging
behaviour which required to get improved. A clear objective for every health and social care is to
deliver quality and positive services to all users so that chances of getting overcome get enhance
in an appropriate frame. There are various strategies need to presented by HSC so that individual
become able to gain better and effective services. All these things will support individual to
maintain effectiveness and positivity in working. Thus, proper strategies have to be carried down
by an organisation so that these individual bodies become able to deal. Moreover, working
criteria of HSC workers also get impacted from these people as this consent need more and more
look upon. Strategies to deal with challenging behaviour people in accordance to health and
social care context are as follow:
 Behavioural reinforcement: Management of association can apply a perfect technique
under which they have to inform such people if their behaviour towards other get
improved then they are going to get rewarded. This factor will support in making the
people behaviour more appropriate in a manner which lead to deal with these people
properly.
 Keep proper records and prepare videos so that whenever such people get recover,
organisation can use such record to enable awareness campaign programmes in order to
deal with many issues and problems.
 Analyse the reason behind such people challenging behaviour so that proper cause could
determine and associated action will lead to take against that. This is another valuable
solution through which chances of overcome get done properly.
 Provide suitable training to all personalities whom are working in an entity which is
helpful to deal with these individual and they become able to take appropriate actions
against them (Morgeson, DeRue and Karam, 2010).
Wellington hospital have to take these steps which enable them in making operations
effective and they become able to deal with these issues properly. Another major problem is
demotivation of employees which is not appropriate for executing operations. Hence, a major
thing being all such facts is to satisfy such individual whom are suffering from specific needs.
Their specialise requirement is just to get fulfil so that patient get recover in minimum time
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duration. Along with this, these patient can also become part of an organisation once they get
recover for advising many other people through sharing experience.
PART 3
3.1 Approaches and interventions which are related with individual specific needs
Approaches and intervention consider as a process which support many individual with
specific needs to get recover. It is important to use appropriate and suitable approaches and
interventions for each and every consent properly (Robins, 2011). There are various number of
approaches and interventions are identify which are related with specific individual needs and
requirement, this will enable them in overcome all people health properly. Interventions have to
take place properly through which such individual will going to recover more properly and
frequently rather than others. Various approaches and interventions for Health and social care
organisation are as follow: Vocational intervention: One of a major intervention which specify and support to such
individual whom have a disability related with talking consider under vocational
intervention. The provided case study reflect about this intervention of Mr and Mrs. E.
Vocational intervention support them to recover the disability of not to talk with any one
by providing them suitable rehabilitation (Niebert, Marsch and Treagust, 2012). Health
care association not providing better and effective services to HL whom is not able to
talk. Thus, vocational intervention is must for such kind of individual so that he become
able to put all points in front of authority.
 Psychological interventions: Another intervention which is essential for HL is
psychological intervention through which a positive and appropriate attitude lead to get
introduce in such individual. This therapy enables in order to deal with such individual
properly so that chances of recovery get enhance in a suitable frame.
Both these interventions play an appropriate role for Mr. & Mrs. E and HL which will support to
recover an individual. Such individual is not able to talk and put their points properly which
impacted overall consent. Hence, these two interventions lead to reflect positive aspect towards
HL in order to bring positivity.
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3.2 Effectiveness of intervention strategies with specific needs
HL was an individual which bring by Mr. & Mrs. E and suffering from so many issues
like vocational issue etc. Along with this, health care association torture him so badly even they
not provide him food as well. When Mr and Mrs. E bring him at home he ate so much food and
slept for one week as well. Thus, in such aspect, one of a major abuse against such person is
locking him in a room for more than one month as well as not providing food. In such aspect,
mainly two kind of interventions get evaluated out of which one is vocational intervention and
another one is psychological interventions.
Out of these two, effective intervention for HL is Psychological interventions through
which a positive and appropriate mind set get frame. This intervention have several number of
advantages which are:
 This intervention is based on cause so that better and appropriate results could be gain
 Control could be maintain through reflecting positive aspects
Some disadvantages which need to understand in context of HL with psychological intervention
stated as follow:
 Not always provide accurate results because psychological aspects lead to get changed
with a course of time
 Changes are unexpected in nature which get modify with time
Thus, psychological intervention is helpful for an individual in order to provide better and
effective services. Such kind of abuse only get deal out by providing better quality services. A
specific needs of HL was to keep him properly. He is not getting appropriate quantity food as
well as sleep which create a negative mindset and make him disturb. Thus, to deal with him, a
major thing is to treat him properly and to motivate him on regular basis. This motivation
support in providing him strength to deal with all major issues of society as well as his hesitation
get recover and improved.
3.3 Potential impact of emerging development in support with specific needs
Development in every industry play an effective role so that specific needs of an
individual get fulfil. This constraint is helpful and thus health and social care organisation have
to identify all emerging development which are related with service delivery perspective
(Sainero and et. al., 2013). This element is helpful in supporting with specific needs so that
chances of negative impact get reduce (Health and Disease, 2016).
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Health care associations have to identify all emerging development with a due course of
time in order to make the outcome more appropriate and effective in nature. Wellington hospital
professional are more dedicated towards their work and they analyse several development whom
are emerging in nature and more helpful in order to deal with such individual. (Sörensen and
Conwell, 2011). Several development in context of health and social care working stated as
follow by applying and relating it with case study:
 Medical: Medical development is a major thing in order to deliver better and effective
quality services to each and every individual whom suffering from any major issue. This
development never determine in case of HL and thus, he suffer from a major issue which
impacted on his overall body and development.
 Social: Another development which support in order to satisfy specific needs of an
individual constitutes with society. Thus, this development get evaluated in case of HL
where Mr. and Mrs. E support and provide appropriate care to such individual as well as
in case of not support by HSC they file a case against them.
Thus, potential impact of emerging development on an individual specific needs become positive
only in such aspect where all services get render properly. It also suppose to reflect suitable
service delivery only by suitable support of health and social care unit. This will contribute in
overall development of an individual like HL with due support of couple like Mr and Mrs. E.
CONCLUSION
By evaluating all above stated outcome, it get identify that health and social cares have to
understand the concept of health, disability and illness properly which enable them in delivery of
proper services. Along with this, legislation, social policy and culture made a vast impact on
working and delivery of services. Along with this, every services have to get render properly by
identify all care needs and combine them with specific requirement as well. Thus, for dealing
with disables behaviour individual, organisation have to applied proper strategies which facilitate
such framework so that execution get done effectively. Further, proper approaches and
interventions have to take place for satisfying individual specific needs and requirements.
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