IMCA
Also called Independent Mental Capacity Advocate, Independent mental capacity advocacy
An advocate the law says must be appointed when a person lacks capacity for a serious decision and has nobody independent to consult.
Communication A to Z
AAC, core vocabulary, partner-assisted scanning, a communication passport. Meetings and leaflets are full of words everyone seems to know already. More than three hundred of them explained in plain English: what each one is, who it helps, and what you can do about it this week.
Please note: This page is general information about communication and the ways people are supported to communicate. It is not an assessment, a diagnosis or speech and language therapy, and it does not know the person you have in mind. If you are worried about someone's speech, language or communication, ask a GP, a health visitor or a speech and language therapist. In an emergency, call 999; if you cannot speak, Relay UK on 18000 or the emergencySMS service reach the same operators.
7 topics filed under I.
I
Independent advocacy
Also called Advocate, Advocacy, Non-instructed advocacy, Self-advocacy support
An advocate is someone whose only job is to help you say what you want and make sure it is heard. Not a social worker, not a carer, not a relative.
Installing a web app
Also called Add to Home Screen, Progressive web app, PWA, Installing a browser app
Putting a browser-based communication aid on the home screen so it opens like an app, full screen and offline, with no web address to find in a hurry.
Intelligibility
Also called Speech clarity, Speech intelligibility, Being understood
How much of a person's speech a stranger understands. It has an expected trajectory in children, and a practical answer when it stays low.
Intensive care and communication
Also called ICU, ITU, Critical care, Ventilated patients
Awake on a ventilator and unable to say you're in pain, frightened or thirsty. What the unit can do, and what a family can bring.
Intensive Interaction
Also called II, Intensive interaction approach
Conversation before words: joining in with a person's sounds and movements until there's a to-and-fro, and building everything else on that.
Interpreters and family
Also called Family as interpreter, Using relatives to interpret, Professional interpreting
Why a relative should not be the interpreter in a medical or legal room, however fluent and however willing, and what to ask for instead.
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