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Speechmatters
Graham House
Knockbracken Healtheare Park
Saintfield Road
Belfast
BT8 8BH
Tel: 028 9040 1389
Web: www.speechmatters.org
Speechmatters is a voluntary organisation working to promote quality of life and opportunity for adults who have become aphasic. It is committed to achieving this by working in partnership with aphasic persons, carers and staff members.
The Speechmatters' team of speech and language therapists, social worker, trained assistants and volunteers is dedicated to providing high quality services to meet the different needs of adults who have become dysphasic and the carers of aphasic persons.
Speechmatters aims to:
- Identify the needs of aphasic persons and their carers and respond to those needs.
- Provide a range of innovative services to meet these needs and to complement those provided by other agencies.
- Actively seek and respond to the views of both individuals who have become aphasic and their carers.
- Provide a forum for aphasic persons and their carers to meet and discuss issues relevant to them.
- Provide information, advice and support to aphasic persons, their families and friends.
- Increase public and professional awareness of aphasia and its potential impact on the health and well-being of aphasic persons and their families.
- Represent the views of individuals who have become aphasic and carers of aphasic persons in Northern Ireland.
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