January Sale, Eating and Drinking Resource 50% discount

This blog continues our focus on the great deals being offered in our January sale.

I wish I’d had this resource as a newly qualified Speech and Language Therapist.  Working on an Acute Stroke Unit a couple of things became clear to me quite quickly;  

1 ) how much emotion surrounds changes in eating and drinking, not just for the person affected but also their family and friends 

and  

2) how seldom the person was included in decisions regarding food / drink/ and eating.  

In my defence I qualified a good while ago and although the desire to include patients in these decisions was there the tools to help facilitate this, on the whole, were not. 

 

Read these blogs to find out more about the Resource and how it can be used; 

Speech and Language Therapist Gillian Callander reviews the resource from her background of working with adults with a Learning Disability. 

Eating and Drinking Resource – a review 

Mary Walsh, Senior Speech and Language Therapist at St Mary’s Hospital in Dublin, describes using the Resource as part of a project that considered how Speech and Language Therapists could facilitate people with dementia to become more active participants in the decision-making process around dysphagia management at the end stage of dementia. 

Does he like fairy cakes? 

My family have recently had experience of eating and drinking difficulties with our teenager and I have to admit prior to this I hadn’t fully considered the role our Eating and Drinking Resource could have.  She doesn’t have a communication difficulty but the anxiety, fear, and shame around eating meant she shut down regularly and verbalising her wishes and needs wasn’t an option.  My own anxiety and emotional involvement meant I didn’t use the Eating and Drinking resource with my daughter but the gift of hindsight lets me see the benefit it could have when supporting someone in this situation.  At this time of year a lot of focus is placed on eating and drinking, particularly socially and creating a plan with this resource could make a big difference. 

If you work with someone with an Eating Disorder and have used Talking Mats to support them please think about sharing your stories with us, we’d love to hear them.   Contact paula@talkingmats.com 

The offer of a 50% discount is only available between January 1^st and 31^st 2025, to those trained to Foundation Level.  Available from the 1^st in the website shop. 

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