Communicate with Me was written in response
to a need to improve how the services for people with learning disabilities
communicate with, and involve, the people they support. It was written as a resource to support work
practice and a quality assurance tool to support services to integrate these
practices into service culture.
Communication is integral to delivering a quality service for people
with a learning disability and effective communication enhances the quality of
that support.
Communicate with Me is a resource that
provides guidance to anyone who supports someone with a learning disability,
whether they are a paid practitioner (employed by a service or directly by an
individual), a family member, an advocate or another member of that person’s
community.
Communicate with Me is a learning resource
designed to further the abilities of all communication partners to both
communicate more effectively with people with a learning disability and to
support people in a way which enables them to become more involved in their own
lives.
Communicate with Me is designed to support
the whole service to consider and develop both how it communicates with, and
involves, people with a learning disability in a way which enables change to
become embedded in the culture and shared values of that service.
The above is an extract from the
book ‘Communicate with Me – A Resource to Enable Effective Communication and
Involvement of People with a Learning Disability’.
You can purchase 'Communicate with Me A Resource to
Enable Effective Communication and Involvement of People with a Learning
Disability’ book with companion online resource and quality assurance
frameworks from Speechmark www.speechmark.net , Amazon
and all good book retailers.
You can also join the:
•Communicate with Me Communication Partner
Development Scheme
•Communicate with Me Internal Quality Assurance
Scheme
Main text cited from:
© Martin Goodwin, Jennie Miller, Cath Edwards (2015)
abridged section from ‘Communicate with Me – A Resource to Enable Effective
Communication and Involvement of People with a Learning Disability. Speechmark
Publishing
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