{"id":1584,"date":"2015-10-06T07:05:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T14:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2015-10-06T07:05:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T14:05:24","slug":"aphasia-institute-health-care-professionals-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=1584","title":{"rendered":"Aphasia Institute &#8211; Health Care Professionals (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On-line &#8211; Self-Directed Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acknowledge Competence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People with aphasia need others to believe they are competent and have more understanding and social skills than may be apparent.<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging competence can be through a tone of voice that is natural, choosing adult or complex topics for discussion, or integrating techniques into natural talk.  Helpful strategies include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saying &#8220;I know that you know&#8221; at appropriate times.<\/li>\n<li>Attribute communication breakdowns to your limitations as a communicator, &#8220;You know I\u2019m not good at explaining these things clearly!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Deal openly when you have to communicate with a partner to obtain or give information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite best efforts, there will be times when communication breaks down &#8211; it is valid and comforting to acknowledge the shared experience of being frustrated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Norma<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On-line &#8211; Self-Directed Learning Acknowledge Competence People with aphasia need others to believe they are competent and have more understanding and social skills than may be apparent. Acknowledging competence can be through a tone of voice that is natural, choosing adult or complex topics for discussion, or integrating techniques into natural talk. Helpful strategies include: &#8230; <a title=\"Aphasia Institute &#8211; Health Care Professionals (Part 4)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=1584\" aria-label=\"Read more about Aphasia Institute &#8211; Health Care Professionals (Part 4)\">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-1584","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\/1584","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=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}