Deaf aid award

Mental Health Nursing,  Oct 2000  

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An innovative scheme to help deaf people with mental illness has won a Matthew Trust nursing scholarship worth 1000.

The project was devised by nurses at Rampton high security hospital. It aims to develop multi-media care plans and nursing interventions so that deaf patients could understand the care they were being given.

A small group of patients at Rampton are profoundly deaf and use British sign language as their preferred means of communication. Helen Millar, the nurse who drafted the proposal said: "At the interface between the deaf and hearing world, communications breakdowns are commonplace. This is made worse during acute or crisis phases of mental illness, learning disability or psychopathic disorder."

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