Examples of how Talking Mats has been used in determining Capacity
2/16/2017 8:10 PM
This post describes some practical examples of how Talking Mats has been used to help with decision making and supporting capacity decisions.
They are taken from stories which people have sent to the Talking Mats team and which have been been made into blogs on the Talking Mats website. Have a look at our website for more.
1. This blog is the transcript of a speech given by Greig McMurchy who is a young man who has cerebral palsy and uses a Voice Activated Communication System. He gave this speech at the launch of new Talking Mats Resources and in it he described how he has used Talking Mats to share his views, opinions and wishes, and how 'this system was helping me to make life Changing decisions, such as what I wanted to do with my life once I had finished my college course'.
2. Ruth Spilman is a Senior Speech and Language Therapist with Specialist services in education with the Cambian Group, Dorset, England. In this blog she discusses how she uses Talking Mats for Capacity Assessments with People with Additional Support Needs and Learning Disabilities
3. This blog was sent to us by Anna Volkmer who has had an excellent book published – Dealing with Capacity and Other Legal Issues with Adults with Acquired Neurological Conditions. In it she describes how AAC methods, including Talking Mats, can be used to support people in expressing their decisions.
4. This blog outlines how Talking Mats can support capacity to make decisions and includes some of the comments we received form participants at a Talking Mats seminar about the benefits of using Talking Mats to support decision making.
4. This blog was sent to us by Gillian Callander, Speech and Language Therapist in Glasgow, Scotland who has used the Talking Mats Eating and Drinking Resource with people with learning disability. She describes how it helps to ensure, that as far as possible, service users are able to input into the discussion about their eating and drinking and to make their opinions known. She has found that Talking Mats helped to provide evidence that service users do or do not understand the information being presented and can help decide outcome with regard to capacity for decision making.
Please share your stories of how you support decision making in a capacity context
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Many thanks, Greg. Your work is fantastic.
For others reading this here is a link to a blog that Greg sent us
Joan Murphy - 2/24/2017