Esker Lodge Nursing Home
is delighted to announce that our activity co-ordinator Naomi McElwaine has
been awarded a certificate of achievement with Talking Mats Limited. Talking
Mats is an innovative, award-winning communication tool based on extensive
research and designed by Speech and Language Therapists. The evidence based
framework helps ensure that people with communication impairments are at the
centre of planning their own care and are involved in decision making about
their health, recreation and goals.
Talking Mats have been a helpful tool to aid
thinking by people with communication difficulties, including:
- Stroke
- Motor Neurone Disease
- learning disability
- people with dementia
Talking Mats Limited is based in the University of
Stirling and is an award winning social enterprise whose vision is to
improve the lives of people with communication difficulties by increasing their
capacity to communicate effectively about things that matter to them.
Naomi
complete the course over 4 months with the final exam consisting of a film of
the talking mats programme in action in Esker Lodge Nursing Home
Armed with this training Naomi is now using the Talking Mats
set of symbols developed from the World Health Organisation within our care
setting
Speaking of the
certification, Esker Lodge Nursing Home’s Managing Director Vicky McDwyer said
“we are delighted for Naomi and really proud of her achievement of this
certification. Esker Lodge can now implement Talking Mats in our care setting
as an additional aid to people with communication difficulties to ensure that
they can express their views and have a voice.”
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