2016-17

Services Offered to Rehabilitation Settings

COMMUNICATE offer tailor-made services to groups supporting adults with acquired communication difficulties within East Anglia. We are a team of experienced and enthusiastic speech and language therapists, already working within a number of settings and with individual clients. This pack gives you an idea of the services we can provide and how our service levels agreements (SLAs) work. By also meeting in person we can ensure the service is tailored to your setting and personalised to your group’s needs.

Our extensive experience enables us to be able to advise and recommend a bespoke service which suits your setting. We will always ensure the service is appropriate clinically, and is value-for-money.

Should you have any questions, would like to book a meeting, or are interested in the training available for you setting, please contact:

Emma Ferris, Lead Therapist & Clinical Director Email: communicate.emma@gmail.com Call: 07825 277410

You can also visit us on social media at: Website: www.communicate-therapy.co.uk Facebook: COMMUNICATESpeechLanguageTherapy

COMMUNICATE & CARE LTD. (trading as Communicate) 08196903

Address

4 Stable Yard Middlewood Green Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 5HG

Company

COMMUNICATE & CARE LTD. (trading as Communicate)

08196903

Website

www.communicate-therapy.co.uk

2016-17

Our Services Explained

We have speech and language therapists who specialise in neurological acquired speech and language difficulties, such as aphasia or motor-speech disorder. These may have been caused by: • Stroke • Traumatic Brain Injury • Motor-Neurone Disease • Multiple Sclerosis • Parkinson’s Disease • Huntingdon’s Chorea • Dementia

INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT & THERAPY

We can treat individuals who are self-funding or funding through personal health insurance. These are charged at our individual client rate which can be found on our website: www.communicate-therapy.co.uk. This can happen whether you have a contract with us or not.

We are also able to see individuals under an SLA within their setting. This would provide:

• Specialist assessment of their communication strengths and difficulties

• Therapy to protect and retain their current skills

• Therapy to establish functional communication skills method to ensure self-advocacy, happiness and independence is maintained where possible.

• Staff / Carer support on the communication difficulty, prognosis and supportive strategies

• Activities and resources to continue daily practice to optimise therapy outcomes.

COMMUNICATE & CARE LTD. (trading as Communicate) 08196903

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GROUP THERAPY ACTIVITIES

These are some of the intervention group sessions which we regularly provide to support groups and residential settings. All can be tailored to your group with regard to the level of their communication difficulties, other cognitive impairments and your group’s purpose:

• Communication & Wellbeing sessions to reminisce about previous eras, retell stories and share memories. Or just to listen to others. This provides motivation for communication as well as creating social spaces for people to make friends. It helps with memory and orientation as well as ensuring everyone’s identity is maintained.

• Quiz & Games sessions to explore different areas of language and cognition, offering an opportunity for those with communication strategies to use and trial them, as well as providing stimulating activities to all.

• Conversation Partner Scheme where someone trained in being a conversation partner (not a speech therapist, but under our guidance) visits and talks on a 1:1 basis with one of the members of your group. This allows things to be done in a more personalised way and at a slower pace; ideal for those who would enjoy the Communication & Wellbeing sessions but find it difficult to keep abreast of the conversation and participate.

STAFF & CARER TRAINING

• Communication Friendly Environment support to ensure the simple interventions which will benefit the whole group are working effectively e.g. symbols, written information etc.

• Information sessions where we discuss general strategies which would aid the vast majority of your group with their communication as well as troubleshoot some questions.

• Communication Partner Training to increase awareness of the strategies and support which could improve the quality of their conversations at home. This training also acts as peer-support and provides a space to talk frankly about difficulties and concerns, introducing them to a support network.

• Bespoke Staff Training on a topic of communication or to explore new interventions which may be useful with your client group. The training session can be for as long as you would like on the topic(s) of your choice. We have also some titles and sessions pre-written which can be used as inspiration or used in their entirity.

COMMUNICATE & CARE LTD. (trading as Communicate) 08196903

2016-17

THE CONTRACT

All SLAs will have the hours per week stipulated and hourly rate agreed. The SLA is agreed for the calendar year (or remaining part thereof). We generally invoice at the end of each calendar month but can invoice for the whole of part of the year if this is preferable.

We are happy to advise on how many hours may be useful to you for your setting, or to be led by you. We will maximise our time with you either way.

Hourly Rate

This is calculated based on the frequency and level of input required. The price structure is as follows:

NB: For settings a significant distance from our base, these hourly rates may be slightly higher.

Frequency of Sessions Hours Cost (£/hr)

Weekly or Fortnightly1 hour session £55/hr

2 hours + £40/hr

Monthly2 hours + £50/hr

1 hour £60/hr

Ad-Hoc Support Without an SLA contract £60/hr

COMMUNICATE & CARE LTD. (trading as Communicate) 08196903