Rethinking Communication guide to advanced dementia

with an expression that clearly says, “I can’t reach this bottle. Please will you get it for me right now, before I start screaming with frustration.” It would also include standard cultural gestures, such as nodding or shaking the head, gestures that we all recognise as “yes” and “no”. One of the many things that babies are doing during the first year of life is discovering new ways to communicate. They learn how to do that through their interactions with other people. They learn from watching what other people do, from copying their sounds, movements and facial expressions,