Current
Research:
Evaluating
the ability of children with social emotional behavioural
(SEB) and communication difficulties to express their
views using Talking Mats.
Coakes L, and Murphy J, Funding from Forth Valley NHS:
starting in April 2005
The
acute hospital experience for adults with a life long
communication disability.
Murphy J, Cameron L, and Balandin S. Funding from CSO
Priorities and Needs Programme: started in October 2006
Goal
setting: Symbols to words.
Boa S. Funding from Forth Valley NHS :starting in January
2006
The
development of a screening tool for adults who are obese
and have learning disabilities.
McIntosh P and Cameron L. Funding from Forth Valley
NHS :started in November 200
Consultation
between GPs and people with a communication disability:
This project is now completed and the final report has
been approved by the Scottish Executive
Life
Planning: This
3 year project to evaluate the effectiveness of Talking
Mats is now completed and the final report has been
approved by the Scottish Executive
Publications Related to Talking
Mats:
Murphy J (2004) Enabling
Frail Older People with a Communication Difficulty to
Express their Views: the use
of Talking Mats™ as an interview tool Health and
Social Care in the Community 13 (2) 95-107
Cameron
L, Watson J and Murphy (2004) Talking Mats: A
focus group tool for people with learning disability.
Communication Matters 18 (1) 33-35
Tester S, Hubbard G, Downs M, McDonald C and Murphy
J (2004) What does quality of life mean for frail
residents? Nursing and Residential
Care Vol.6 No.2 p.89-92
Boa S and MacFadyen L (2003) Goal Setting for
People with Communication Difficulites.
Communication Matters 17 (3) 31-33
Boa, S and Murphy, J (2003) Talking Mats- An
overview of current developments.
Communicating with pictures and symbols - Augmentative
Communication in Practice Study Day 2003 43-45
Murphy,
J , McCallan S and Aitken J (2003) Helping People
make decisions about PEG Feeding
Bulletin of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
No. 618
Bell, D and Cameron, L (2003) The assessment
of the sexual knowledge of a person with a severe learning
disability and a severe communication disorder
British Journal of Learning Disability 31, pp123-129
Watson, J, Cameron, L and Murphy J (2003) Don't
just make the font bigger: Talking Mats™- a tool
for improving consultation with people with a learning
disability - Learning Disability
Practice 6(7):20-23
Cameron, L and Murphy, J (2002) Enabling young
people with a learning disability to make choices at
a time of transition, British
Journal of Learning Disabilities, 30:105-11
Murphy, J. and Cameron, L. (2002) Let your Mats
do the Talking. Speech and Language Therapy in Practice-
Spring 2002 p18-20
Cameron, L. and Murphy, J. (2001) Views of young
adults at the time of transition.
Communication Matters Journal, Vol. 15 No.1, 31-32
Murphy, J. (2000) Enabling people with aphasia
to discuss quality of life. British
Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitiation, Vol. 7 No.11,
454-457.
Brown,
L, Dendy, M and Murphy, J. (2000) Respite Review: Obtaining
the Views of the Users. Communication
Matters Journal, Vol. 14 No.2 25-26.
Murphy, J. (1999). Enabling People with Motor
Neurone Disease to Discuss their Quality of Life.
Communication Matters, Vol.13 No 2, 2-6.
Murphy, J. (1998). Talking Mats: Speech and language
research in practice. Speech
and Language Therapy in Practice, Autumn 1998, 11-14
Murphy, J. (1998). Helping people with severe
communication difficulties to express their views: a
low tech tool. Communication
Matters, 12(2), 9-11
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