Who comes to DEAL?

DEAL Communication Centre provides services to people who are unable to talk, or to talk clearly, as a result of conditions such as cerebral palsy, strokes, acquired brain damage, autism, Down syndrome, or intellectual impairment - anyone whose speech is not clear enough, fluent enough or reliable enough to allow them to get across everything they want to say.  Diagnosis isn't important: what counts is how to help the person to communicate.

DEAL sees people with diagnoses of, among others...

• Acquired Brain Damage (ABD)
• Autism/ASD
• Cerebral Palsy
• Down syndrome
• Huntingdon's Chorea
• Intellectual Disability
• Rett syndrome
• Stroke/CVA
• Fragile X Syndrome