{"id":4460,"date":"2015-04-16T11:35:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T10:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/?p=947"},"modified":"2015-04-16T11:35:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T10:35:38","slug":"talking-mats-training-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2015\/04\/16\/talking-mats-training-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Mats training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students, staff and colleagues from PSSRU completed their certified talking mats training under the leadership of accredited trainer, \u00a0Jill Bradshaw, Tizard Centre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/files\/2015\/04\/talkingmats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-948 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/files\/2015\/04\/talkingmats-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"talkingmats\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taking Mats is a\u00a0communication symbols tool. \u00a0It is based on extensive research and designed by Speech and Language Therapists. It uses unique, specially designed picture communication symbols that are attractive to all ages and communication abilities and is used by clinical practitioners, carers and support workers in a wide range of health, social work, residential and education settings.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/about-talking-mats\/\">http:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/about-talking-mats\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students, staff and colleagues from PSSRU completed their certified talking mats training under the leadership of accredited trainer, \u00a0Jill Bradshaw, Tizard Centre. Taking Mats is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2015\/04\/16\/talking-mats-training-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43796,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}