Optimal Management of Atypical Communication in Healthcare

By Riya Elizabeth George, Michelle O’Reilly

This book serves as a practical guide for healthcare professionals and trainees, focusing on atypical communication conditions and their impact on everyday healthcare interactions. It considers a wide spectrum of communication impairments and the social and cultural contexts in which these interactions take place.

A growing number of patients have been reporting atypical capacity for communication, creating unique challenges for healthcare professionals and patients in forming meaningful clinical interactions. Leading international scholars from a range of healthcare professions provide insight into optimal management strategies for those with atypical communication conditions, including speech, language, and hearing impairments.

Chapters include optimal management strategies, case examples, clinical recommendations, and recommended resources relevant for a range of healthcare professionals. This book supports inter-professional practices and serves as a useful guide for those with an interest in clinical communication, and communication and diversity.

This book will be a valuable resource for health and mental healthcare professionals as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in healthcare and allied healthcare courses. It can be included as recommended reading material in clinical communication curricula.

Product Details

Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (April 24, 2023)

Language: English

Pages: 292

ISBN-10: 0367696134

ISBN-13: 978-0367696139