{"id":1572,"date":"2015-10-04T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2015-10-04T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T14:22:20","slug":"aphasia-institute-health-care-professionals-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"Aphasia Institute &#8211; Health Care Professionals (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On-line &#8211; Self-Directed Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Communication Tools:<\/strong> Communicative Access &#038; SCA\u2122<\/p>\n<p>Supported Conversation for Adults With Aphasia (SCA\u2122) is a program that uses a set of techniques to encourage conversation when working with someone with aphasia through:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spoken and written keywords<\/li>\n<li>Body language and gestures<\/li>\n<li>Hand drawings<\/li>\n<li>Detailed pictographs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SCA\u2122 is designed to help people who &#8220;know more than they can say&#8221; express their opinions and feelings in a way that makes them feel valued and heard.  Through the program\u2019s techniques, conversation partners such as family members, doctors, nurses, or friends, can help break down the communication barrier and help people with aphasia re-join life\u2019s conversations.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe goals of Supported Conversation for Adults With Aphasia are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acknowledge the competence of the adult with aphasia.<\/li>\n<li>Help the adult with aphasia to reveal his or her competence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Norma<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On-line &#8211; Self-Directed Learning Communication Tools: Communicative Access &#038; SCA\u2122 Supported Conversation for Adults With Aphasia (SCA\u2122) is a program that uses a set of techniques to encourage conversation when working with someone with aphasia through: Spoken and written keywords Body language and gestures Hand drawings Detailed pictographs SCA\u2122 is designed to help people who &#8230; <a title=\"Aphasia Institute &#8211; Health Care Professionals (Part 3)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=1572\" aria-label=\"Read more about Aphasia Institute &#8211; Health Care Professionals (Part 3)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphasia","category-family","category-friend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}