Newspaper Group

I was hired to head up our saturaday service. Working on Saturdays gives me a chance to run more groups and to do joint sessions with patients families.

Reading newspapers on saturday and catching up with the news and sport is something most patients would do outside of hospital. Newspapers have pictures, headlines, complicated articles, magazines..... All of which facilitate discussion about different topics and the use of communication strategies. I'm not a massive fan of The Sun newspaper but it is brilliant for SLT. It has huge headlinesa and pictures, bold summaries of articles, a clear writing style and contentious stories, all of which make it the perfect starting point or facilitator for a discussion. I normally give each patient a goal for newspaper group and try to sit patients with similar needs together. Here is a poster i've developed to advertise the group.