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Tricia Burnet, our Involvement Manager, qualified as an accredited Talking Mats trainer earlier this year, and has already gone on to train other workers in the organisation.
Talking Mats is a communication tool, which uses a mat with symbols attached as the basis for communication. This tool supports adults and children with a range of communication difficulties and helps people to understand, consider and express their views about things that matter to them.
George McIntryre, Support worker in East Lothian said: “This is a creative tool with a lot of potential for working with people we support who have verbal communication difficulties.”
Talking Mats training sessions take place over a period of five weeks, developmental Talking Mats sessions are filmed as a focus for discussion and reflection and consideration of future applications in supporting people. The success of this innovation lies in the communication skills of the practitioner who uses it.
When communicating with people supported the completed mat for that discussion is photographed as a record of the opinion or decision, and kept with Support Agreements.
www.talkingmats.com
Involvement
The Involvement Reference Group is made up of a a mix of people supported and workers and meets every eight weeks and it started in 2009. The purpose of the group is to support people to influence the work of the organisation as well as learn about our wider work. It is a great way for people to get more involved in the organisation.
“The service has excellent ways of involving people in their own care arrangements and in the Carr Gomm organisation. This helps them find out what people want and to develop services that take account of their views” Comments from recent Care Inspectorate Report, Falkirk
Aim Four: To have systems that help people we support be more in control of their
Control
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