Communication

 Communication is the key to everything!!!

Without communication the world couldn’t go on.  We communicate with each other every day in many ways. Not just through speech.

Some people communicate through symbols or just body language vice or sign language.

Kim Hartley Kean has been a speech therapist for many years now, she explains: “I wanted to be a speech therapist because I like communicating myself and I wanted to know how and why people do communicate.” 

It is so important that everyone has a chance to communicate, Kim adds: it is how we connect with everyone, it is how we express ourselves it is how we socialise.”

In 2021, Kim and another speech therapist set up a social enterprise called Communication Inclusion People. The team of Communication Inclusion People includes Kim, another speech therapist and 12 Co-Producers who communicate in different ways.  The team delivers projects to organizations who want to   improve their inclusive communication, such as deliver training on how to communicate with someone who has communication difficulties.   Kim adds: “if we can get organisations to be good at communication inclusion, it will give people more of a chance to communicate with organisations.” 

By Jill Clark