Useful Information and Links
Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership
Useful Information
Word Finding
- Word-Finding Difficulties – how to support people to find the right words
Speech Production
- Dysarthria – how to support typical speech production
Supporting Conversations
- Communicating Well Booklet – how to help people participate in conversations
- Tips for Talking Booklet – simple ways to improve conversation success
Eating and Drinking Advice
- Tips for Eating and Drinking – ways to support eating and drinking
- SWALLOW – advice to help support safe eating and drinking
Life Story Books
Speech & Language Therapists frequently use life story books to support people with communication difficulties. Everybody has the skills to create a meaningful, effective communication book with details of a person’s past and their current interests. This allows others to engage with them when typical conversation might be hard to achieve.
The video below explains more about how Life Story Books work, where to begin, and where to find out more.
Links to Trusted Websites
Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership: https://www.aberdeencityhscp.scot/
Age Concern: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/
Alzheimer’s Scotland: https://www.alzscot.org/
British Stammering Association: https://stamma.org/
British Voice Association: https://www.britishvoiceassociation.org.uk/
Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland: https://www.chss.org.uk/
Dystonia Society: https://www.dystonia.org.uk/
FND Information: https://neurosymptoms.org/en/
Headway: https://www.headway.org.uk/
Huntington’s Disease Association: https://www.hda.org.uk/
Motor Neurone Disease Scotland: https://www.mndscotland.org.uk/
Multiple Sclerosis Society: https://www.mssociety.org.uk/
Multiple System Atrophy Trust: https://www.msatrust.org.uk/
Parkinson’s Disease Society: https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/
PSP Association: https://pspassociation.org.uk/
The Stroke Association: https://www.stroke.org.uk/
Voice Banking: https://www.speakunique.co.uk/
