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Supporting People with Profound & Multiple Disabilities
Find out about the Core and Essential Service Standards for Supporting People with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities. and thanks to Joanna Grace for this interesting and important guest blog ,she writes; Last week I threw used deodorant canisters at an audience of earnest professionals and was cheered for doing so. What was going on? I […]

Let pictures talk
Grateful thanks to Prof. Dr. Norina Lauer, OTH Regensburg – University of Applied Sciences, Germany for this blog. At the conference of the German Society for Aphasia Research and Treatment (GAB) from the 1st to the 3rd of November Franziska Rau presented a poster – Let pictures talk – about her bachelor thesis on Talking Mats. […]

Student Discount on Talking Mats courses
Did you know you can get a student discount on Talking Mats courses? Just started / started back on your College or University Course? Looking to have a certificate in understanding and using an award winning communication resource on your CV? Or perhaps you are teaching a course centered around communication ? Did you know […]

German Digital Talking Mats with people with aphasia
We are very grateful to Elena Maxheimer, a Speech and Language Therapy student from Germany, for sending us this blog of a summary of her thesis which examined the use of the German Digital Talking Mats with people with aphasia. In May 2018 I did my bachelor thesis on the German version of the Talking […]

Digital Talking Mats and Dementia
Talking Mats received funding from The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland to look at how using the Digital Talking Mats can help people with long term conditions, including dementia, to manage their health and well-being and to recognise their own strengths and abilities. We also hoped that participants would be able to have more […]