Disability
People with Disabilities
TalkLink team members work with people of all ages, who have a disability and have difficulties with speech, written communication, learning or controlling their environment.
The TalkLink service can help people with a Physical, Sensory, Cognitive, Intellectual, Learning or Age related disability which prevents them from:
- producing legible writing at an adequate speed
- producing intelligible speech
- processing receptive or expressive language
- learning to communicate in speech or writing
Examples of disabilities:
- Acquired Brain Injury
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Aphasia
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD or ADHD)
- Autism
- Blind
- Brain Injury
- Cerebral Palsy
- Cerebro-Vascular Accident (CVA)
- Deaf
- Down Syndrome
- Dysarthria
- Dyspraxia
- Dystonia
- Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Intellectual disability (IH)
- Limb amputation
- Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS)
- Motor Neurone Disease (MND)
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Muscular Dystrophy (MD)
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Specific Learning Disorder (LD)
- Spinal Injury
- Stroke
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
