Chatting Independently

Promoting:

independent living skills & employment opportunities

Welcome to Chatting Independently

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Therapies interact with independent living skills

Chatting Independently provides a therapeutic independent living approach for people with a physical disability in the age range of 18-60 years although most of our residents are aged 18-30 years and use of various forms of Augmentative, Alternative Communication (AAC) giving them the opportunity to learn to direct their own lives and become self-assertive and independent.

Being independent is to be free from the control of others and gain the confidence to ask for a hand to carry out whatever activity they wish whenever they wish.

We believe there is nothing you and others with a physical disability cannot do as long as the environment changes and the attitudes of others may need to change.

Chatting Independently provides residents with the following therapies:

• a combination of dryland and hydrotherapy from a registered neurophysiotherapist;

• speech and language therapy working with assistive technology and problems of swallowing and eating;

• occupational therapy preparing you for independent living, providing ways of dealing with behaviour issues;

• clinical psychologist carries out mental capacity assessments and cognitive assessments when required

We provide a lot of independent living skills training including the provision of £40 weekly food budget so you can buy the food you like as well as learning about money.

You will have 1 to 1 support from our staff who will help you not just with personal care but to learn how to make choices and decisions and how to take the consequences of those decisions.

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