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Adaptive Interaction and Dementia: How to Communicate Without Speech - Softcover

Ellis, Maggie

 
9781785921971: Adaptive Interaction and Dementia: How to Communicate Without Speech

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Practical interventions for communicating with people in the advanced stages of dementia who are no longer able to speak

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Dr Maggie Ellis is Lecturer at the School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, UK. Arlene Astell is Professor at the School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, UK and at the Department of Occupational Sciences & Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto, Canada.

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This guide to Adaptive Interaction explains how to assess the communication repertoires of people with dementia who can no longer speak, and offers creative interventions for communicating with them.Outlining the challenges faced by people living with advanced dementia, this book shows how to relieve the strain on relationships between them, their families, and professional caregivers through non-verbal communication. It includes communication assessment tools and guidance on how to build on the communication repertoire of the individual with dementia. With accessible evidence and case studies based on the authors' research, this book can be used as the basis for developing interactions without words with people living with dementia.

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