Rethinking Communication guide to advanced dementia

13 become more obvious. Our aim is to help that similarity feel natural and acceptable. We will explore the fundamentals of communication, explaining why infants’ communicative abilities are so closely related to those with advanced dementia. The capacities of little people just entering the social world are linked to those older ones who are trying to hold on to their remaining communicative abilities. Both need the help of the rest of us to do that. So writing a book on dementia included within the connected baby series is less radical than at first it may have appeared. We hope that the brief discussion we have had already will