Self-help me if you can
Author: Avril Nicoll
Magazine issue: Summer 07
Page numbers: 17-19
Date: 28 May 2007
URL: http://www.speechmag.com/content/files/SelfHelpFeatureSum07.pdf
A communication disability can be very isolating. With increasing understanding of the importance of self-help and social support, editor Avril Nicoll asks if speech and language therapists value our role in facilitating and supporting such groups sufficiently? Interviewees are: Anita Williams and John McCreadie of Liverpool’s CALLUP, a self-help group for users of AAC (Alternative and Augmentative Communication); John Mann and other members of Safety in Stumblers a Glasgow self-help group for people who stammer along with supporting speech and language therapist Carolyn Allen; and Annette Cameron, speech and language therapist associated with Aberdeen’s Speakeasy group for people with aphasia.
