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Care Inspectors in Sweden and Talking Mats
This blog is about how Care Inspectors in Sweden are using Talking Mats. On 18th March I met up with old friends – Ulrika Ferm and Eva Holmqvist – at the ISAAC Denmark Conference in the beautiful Vingsted Conference Centre in West Denmark. Ulrika and Eva work at DART Communication Centre in Gothenburg Sweden http://www.dart-gbg.org/english/. […]
Using Talking Mats to Empower People with Dementia to Actively Participate in Decision Making
Many thanks to Mary Walsh, Health Service Executive (HSE) Senior SLT at St Mary’s Hospital, Dublin for this fantastic blog post about their project involving use of Talking Mats to support people with Dementia to participate in decision making related to their needs: In September 2016 Aideen Lawlor (SLT Manager) and I (Senior SLT) won the […]
Working with Freeset – a Fairtrade business
If you have purchased one of our resources, chances are you have a Talking Mats bag. Last week, I went to West Bengal in India to visit Freeset, the Fairtrade business that supplies our bags. West Bengal has been recording a high crime rate against women over the past several years. The state shares a […]
Introducing our New Talking Mats OT Associate
We are delighted to introduce Rachel Woolcomb our first Talking Mats OT Associate. She is joining the Talking Mats Team and will be working to develop awareness and use of Talking Mats by Occupational Therapists. I will let Rachel introduce herself: I am delighted that Talking Mats have asked me to join their team for one […]
Working in the Criminal Justice System? TOP 5 Blogs
Thanks so much to all the practitioners who have sent us guest blogs about using Talking Mat in a Criminal Justice setting. Here are our top 5 – in no particular order! 1. Supporting Families in the Criminal Justice System: Sally Kedge, Speech and Language Therapist from Trouble Talking New Zealand shares two powerful case […]
