Application - Stroke, Cancer Patients, Parkinson’s, etc.
Do you care for patients or clients who are temporarily or permanently unable to
communicate via speech or writing?
Is there someone in your life who has lost the ability to speak and write?
Application - Speech Language Pathologists
Do you work with clients who have special needs, difficulty communicating, hearing
loss?
Are you required to communicate with patients or clients who may not speak or write
your language?
When someone loses the ability to speak and write due to illness, injury, disease, or aging, they also lose the ability to communicate basic needs, wants, and desires. Capacity to convey pain levels and locations, emotional needs, information about emergency contacts, home and ambulatory issues, reactions to medicines, too cold, too hot, even "I need a hug", are all gone.
Crucial Communications has developed a series of Point To Communicate booklets for humanitarian reasons and to help caregivers comply with the National Joint Committee Patient's Bill of Rights and Medicare's Bill of Rights. The booklets allow injured or disabled individuals to communicate with others by pointing to a picture with a matching word or phrase that depicts common situations such as greeting a family member or asking for medical assistance.
With Point To Communicate booklets, individuals facing communication challenges convey their basic needs to family, friends, and health care/medical providers. Presently, there are three different products available, Medical Facilities/Hospital, Nursing Home, and Home Health. This easy-to-use communication tool enables communication-compromised individuals to participate in health and daily care related decisions.