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The ability to communicate our needs, emotions or thoughts to people around us and to reciprocate their communications is something that we take for granted. This ability is used as an indication of normality. Failure to smile in response to a familiar face or voice in the developing child, or to cry when hungry or wet, is an indication that all may not be well. Similarly, after traumatic brain damage (TBI), a verbal response is one of the indicators used to determine when a person emerges from coma. However, in the recovery process after severe head injury, there is often a long road from the first utterance to conversation that approaches that person’s premorbid level. In some cases verbal communication may no longer be possible, and new communication skills may have to be learnt or little-used ones brought to the fore.
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Cockburn, J., Wood, J. (1995). Developing communications skills: a group therapy approach. In: Chamberlain, M.A., Neumann, V., Tennant, A. (eds) Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2871-9_15
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