PROFILES · JOURNALS ·
SHARED UNDERSTANDING
PROFILES · JOURNALS ·
SHARED UNDERSTANDING
My Meaning helps the Practitioner and the Multi-Disciplinary Team gain a broader picture of how a participant communicates every day.
Support workers, family members and other approved communication partners can contribute structured observations from regular interactions. This gives practitioners useful real-world information to bring into future discussions, reviews and multidisciplinary conversations.
Gather communication observations from people who spend regular time with the participant.
Compare how communication is working at home, in the community, with support workers, family and other members of the participant’s team.
Use relevant observations as a starting point for conversations with the participant, family, support team and other practitioners.
Approved practitioners can consider communication observations alongside their own professional knowledge and discuss relevant issues across the broader team.
As the participant changes, the communication profile can be updated with them. This was the support team has a up to date reference point.
The participant, family, support workers and authorised practitioners can work from the same profile and communication dictionary rather than relying on separate handovers or fragmented knowledge.
My Meaning helps the people supporting a participant work from the same practical understanding of how they communicate, while still allowing each professional to maintain their own clinical responsibilities and records.
My Meaning supports communication observations, collaboration and practical communication guidance. It is not intended to replace a practitioner’s clinical records. Assessments, diagnoses, clinical reasoning, treatment decisions, case notes and other documentation that forms part of the practitioner’s professional record should continue to be recorded and retained in the practitioner’s own approved clinical or practice management system.