Independent Person Advocacy (IPA)
Independent Person Advocates (IPA’s) work with people with learning disabilities who do not use language to communicate. 
IPA’s will go and meet the person.
IPA’s will watch the person to learn more about them. 
IPA’s will then talk to the person’s family and people who live and work with them.
IPA’s are independent. This means that they are only working for the person with learning disabilities.
An Example of IPA work:
A client did not want to go to a day centre.
The IPA went to see them at the day centre and at some other places.
This helped the IPA to see where the client liked to be and what they wanted to do.
The IPA talked to the staff and told them what they thought.
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