Basic communication

Basic Communication ( basal "at the base, fundamentally, from 'below' starting") is a body oriented healing educational concept to build a communicative relationship with people who can not verbally express themselves.

Basics

In this context, the word basal refers to communication that can be achieved without any preconditions on the part of people with disabilities. Contact with “non-speaking” people, such as the severely mentally disabled , dementia patients , people with autistic syndrome or people in a vegetative state , should be established through the body and body language. The means of communication available are primarily the breathing rhythm, but also utterances, changes in tone, touch, movements, “stereotypical” behavior, etc.

The concept of basic communication according to Winfried Mall expands the concept of basic stimulation according to Andreas D. Fröhlich by placing the aspect of communication in the foreground and further filling it methodically. Mall understands all physical behaviors as expressive behavior, which in turn can be responded to in a sensually perceptible manner with appropriate physical behavior. Experiences from functional relaxation according to Marianne Fuchs are implemented, and elements of rhythmic-musical education and integrative gestalt therapy according to Theijs ​​Besems are integrated. The concept of basic communication according to Winfried Mall is counted among the basic methods of curative education.

The experience of basic communication can lead to a reduction in behavioral problems on the part of the disabled person, to the establishment of new social contacts, to a greater interest in the environment, to physical-psychological relaxation and to an improvement in motor skills and balance. disabled partner to a better understanding and greater tolerance of difficult behavior.

See also

• Pre-therapy
• Supported communication

Web links

• Winfried Mall's website for basic communication
• Winfried Mall's website

literature

• Christian Malina: Basic communication - an approach to the pedagogical formation of relationships in people with severe intellectual disabilities . In: E. Wüllenweber (Hrsg.): Understanding one another better - aids and approaches for people with intellectual disabilities, with learning disabilities and with autism. Volume 1: Communication and relationship building . Lebenshilfe-Verlag, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88617-418-8 , p. 117-123 .
• Winfried Mall: Basic communication a way to change . In: Intellectual Disability . tape 23 , no. 1 , 1984 ( Basic communication a way to change ( Memento from September 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 410 kB ]).
• Winfried Mall: Basic communication in occupational therapy . In: Ergotherapy practice . tape 12 , no. 5 , 1999, p. 372–377 ( Basic communication in occupational therapy ( Memento from September 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 56 kB ]).
• Winfried Mall: Basic communication - meeting without prerequisites . In: A. Fröhlich, N. Heinen, W. Lamers (eds.): Severe disability in practice and theory - a look back ahead. Texts on pedagogy for the physical and multiple disabilities . Self-determined learning publishing house, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-910095-50-X , p. 223–234 ( Basic communication - meeting without prerequisites. ( Memento from September 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 342 kB ]).
• Winfried Mall: Basic communication - a contribution of curative education to the treatment of severely disabled people . In: Physiotherapy - magazine for physiotherapists . tape 55 , no. 8 , 2003, p. 1342–1346 ( Basic communication - a contribution from curative education to the treatment of severely disabled people ( Memento from September 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 236 kB ]).
• Winfried Mall: Do you have to learn communication first? Communication without prerequisites . In: VHN - quarterly for curative education and its neighboring areas . tape 73 , no. 1 , 2004, p. 3–11 ( Do you have to learn communication first? Communication without prerequisites ( Memento from September 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 236 kB ]).
• Winfried Mall: An access that remains - even in the case of a vegetative state or dementia: basic communication. In: Jens Boenisch , K. Otto (Hrsg.): Life in dialogue - supported communication over the entire lifespan . Loeper Literaturverlag, Karlsruhe 2005, ISBN 3-86059-144-4 , p. 404-415 ( An access remains - even in a vegetative state or dementia: Basic Communication. ( Memento of 7 September 2012 at the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 303 kB ]).
• Winfried Mall: Communication without prerequisites: With people with the most severe impairments . 6th revised edition. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8253-8337-4 .
• Dieter Niehoff: Basic stimulation and communication. Textbook: Methods in curative education and curative education care . 2nd Edition. Bildungsverlag Eins, Troisdorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-427-04863-3 .
• Georg Theunissen : Education for intellectual disabilities and behavioral problems. A compendium for practice. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2005, ISBN 3-7815-0884-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Keyword "basal" in the Sociolexikon. (No longer available online.) In: socioweb.de. Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachsen, September 5, 1999, archived from the original on May 10, 2009 ; Retrieved November 24, 2008 . 
2. ↑ Winfried Mall: Basic communication a way to change . In: Intellectual Disability . tape 23 , no. 1 , 1984, p. 3 of the online version ( online ( memento of September 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 410 kB ; accessed on November 26, 2008]). Basic communication a way to change (PDF; 410 kB) ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Erich Grond : Care for people with dementia . Schlütersche, 2005, ISBN 3-89993-431-8 , p. 123 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ↑ Alexandra Hügel: Prinzenkinder: Appearance, possible causes and treatment approaches in autistic syndrome. Tectum Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-8288-8109-2 , p. 209 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
5. ↑ Johannes Keller: Customer coma communication: what significance does the term customer have in communication with people in a vegetative state? GRIN Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-70773-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).
6. ↑ Werner Eitle : Basic knowledge of curative education . Bildungsverlag Eins, 2003, ISBN 3-427-08133-8 , pp. 214 ff .