hi to all,
just a quick thread to get some all important opinions from you all, hope everyone is having an even better day than the one before, or will have a better one tomorrow.
My mum has early onset AD, but this thread is coming more from suzanna 'the speech therapy student' rather than 'suzanna the daughter of an AD sufferer'
I am currently completing my final year of a speech therapy degree and designing a project to set up a training day/programme for carers of people with dementia, looking at communication strategies which may be beneficial in the earlier stages and also looking at management of eating and drinking problems as well as general support for carers. The motivation behind this, as well as on a personal level, is that i believe currently there are few areas in which specialist speech and language therapy provision for carers of people with dementia exist.
So, to cut to the chase, i was hoping that people might like to contribute to this, by not only sharing with me the experiences (if any) you have had with speech therapists (good or bad!) but also in telling me of what help you would like to see offered.
obviously, i understand if people are too busy to contribute (am fully aware of the level of time and both physical and mental stress involved in being a carer)but thought some of you may appreciate the opportunity to express an opinion on this, and hopefully contribute to changing the future of speech therapy provision for people in our situation.
many regards,
Suzanna
PS: if a moderator could let me know if i can post my email address for people to respond via, that would be great. thanks
just a quick thread to get some all important opinions from you all, hope everyone is having an even better day than the one before, or will have a better one tomorrow.
My mum has early onset AD, but this thread is coming more from suzanna 'the speech therapy student' rather than 'suzanna the daughter of an AD sufferer'
I am currently completing my final year of a speech therapy degree and designing a project to set up a training day/programme for carers of people with dementia, looking at communication strategies which may be beneficial in the earlier stages and also looking at management of eating and drinking problems as well as general support for carers. The motivation behind this, as well as on a personal level, is that i believe currently there are few areas in which specialist speech and language therapy provision for carers of people with dementia exist.
So, to cut to the chase, i was hoping that people might like to contribute to this, by not only sharing with me the experiences (if any) you have had with speech therapists (good or bad!) but also in telling me of what help you would like to see offered.
obviously, i understand if people are too busy to contribute (am fully aware of the level of time and both physical and mental stress involved in being a carer)but thought some of you may appreciate the opportunity to express an opinion on this, and hopefully contribute to changing the future of speech therapy provision for people in our situation.
many regards,
Suzanna
PS: if a moderator could let me know if i can post my email address for people to respond via, that would be great. thanks