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.
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.
301 topics, showing 141–150 (page 15 of 31).
I
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.
J
Joint attention
Also called Shared attention, Triadic attention, Joint engagement
Two people attending to the same thing, and both knowing it. It is the root that language grows from, and it can be grown at any age.
Joystick access
Also called Joystick control, Joystick mouse, Wheelchair joystick integration, Integrated control
Driving a pointer with a wheelchair-style joystick, sometimes the very joystick that drives the chair. Familiar, robust, and slower than it looks.
K
Keyguard
Also called Key guard, Screen guard, Grid overlay
A rigid frame with holes that sits over the screen, so a sliding hand stops at the edge of a cell instead of on the wrong one.
Kitchen vocabulary
Also called Cooking vocabulary, Kitchen set, Cooking words
Cooking, helping, stirring, hot, careful: the words for the room where family life happens, and where a person is most often told to keep out of the way.
L
Language milestones
Also called Ages and stages, Developmental milestones, Speech and language milestones
The ages and stages, given the way the NHS gives them: as a range, with the signs that matter more than the dates.
Laryngectomy
Also called Total laryngectomy, Voice box removal, Alaryngeal speech, Neck breather
Speaking after the voice box is removed: the valve, the electrolarynx and oesophageal speech, and what each sounds like and asks of the person.
Late talkers
Also called Late talker, Late language emergence, Delayed speech, Speech delay
Toddlers with few words at two. Most catch up; some do not, and the ones who do not are worth finding early.
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