Easy Access Version of Aphasia in Scotland Report

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Easy Access Version of Aphasia in Scotland Report

• Annette Cameron
• Speech and Language Therapist
• Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
• annette.cameron_at_nhs.net

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Introduction

• wonderful opportunity to work alongside people
  with aphasia
• put into practice some of the principles of the
  Aphasia in Scotland Report
• interesting work with many challenges

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Overview of what we did

• 4 meetings of focus group
• 6 people with aphasia from Speakability groups
  across Scotland
• recruited via SLTs
• 2 people had been involved in the Aphasia Project
  from the beginning

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How we worked

• information was sent out in advance to give
  people with aphasia time to read it
• job descriptions agreed what people signed up
  to
• worked in partnership
• agreed plans and criteria
• listened and made changes

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People with aphasia

• contributed their ideas
• made suggestions and shared examples of
  accessible information
• made choices and decisions
• gave feedback on the draft report

• what photos and drawings to use
• designed/gave feedback on drafts of these
• what wording, font, colours, layout etc

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Role of therapist

• explained background to the project
• carried out literature review on accessible
  information
• looked at current documents for examples

• visited Connect
• searched internet for images gave choices
• sent out plans, drafts of report
• incorporated comments by stakeholders

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Used a variety of approaches

• Flip chart
• to give background and agree criteria

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Talking Mats

• as ice-breaker
• what style, font etc

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• computer for online working
• voting to indicate preferred font styles

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Choice of line drawings and cartoons
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Reflective learning

• not an easy task
• there are a variety of approaches, therefore no
  right way
• variety of views about target audience, style,
  images
• complex and diverse working, but exciting and
  interesting
• would encourage everyone to do this