Consultancy
Do you need support to help develop your service?
We can support you with:
- Service development - design and delivery of long-term services
- Vision and strategy development
- Accessibility for people with communication disability - practical advice and audits
- Service user and carer consultation and involvement - in planning and delivering services, in research or running information events
- Advice based on feedback from people with aphasia, the real experts
For more information on Connect consultancy, email Helen Mann or call her on 020 7367 0864
Our clients
Connect was commissioned by the Department of Health to advise on the accessibility of National Stroke Strategy consultation document.
We worked with two national health regulatory bodies to make their complaints leaflet more accessible. One of the regulatory bodies commented that 'The manner in which Connect conveyed its views was objective, encouraging and constructive. It is much easier to implement changes when workable solutions are offered – and this you did',
Connect worked collaboratively with a national charity to make their pocket guide about gardening therapy more accessible to people with communication disabilities.
A leading stroke charity commissioned Connect to help envision ideal support services for people living with stroke.
Connect has worked with Northumbria Healthcare to enable them to roll out a programme of one day events.
Connect worked with 'Stepping Out' a self-management programme for people who have had a stroke and their carers to make their written documents for people with communication disability clear and accessible.
'I have been powerfully influenced… it has changed my way of thinking about aphasia, and inspired me to develop my practice' Alex Stirling, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Manchester Metropolitan University
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