{"id":7389,"date":"2016-09-16T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/communicating-with-patients-with-special-health-care-needs\/"},"modified":"2016-09-16T04:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T04:00:56","slug":"communicating-with-patients-with-special-health-care-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/communicating-with-patients-with-special-health-care-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Communicating with Patients with Special Health Care Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides practical tips and tools dental professionals can use to facilitate communication for a diverse population of PSHCNs. The article discusses communication needs of patients with communication disorders; augmentative and alternative communication; and communication for patients with intellectual disability, psychiatric conditions; and dental fears. Examples are given of communication breakdowns, and descriptions of how communication challenges can be resolved. (Source: Dental Clinics of North America)<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/medworm.com\/index.php?rid=171249362&#038;cid=d_11_11_f&#038;fid=33220&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dental.theclinics.com%2Farticle%2FS0011-8532%2816%2930015-5%2Fabstract%3Frss%3Dyes\">MedWorm: Dentistry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides practical tips and tools dental professionals can use to facilitate communication for a diverse population of PSHCNs. The article discusses communication needs of patients with communication disorders; augmentative and alternative communication; and communication for patients with intellectual disability, psychiatric conditions; and dental fears. Examples are given of communication breakdowns, and descriptions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[50,9422,8,2423,62,935],"class_list":["post-7389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-news","tag-care","tag-communicating","tag-health","tag-needs","tag-patients","tag-special"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YapV-1Vb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}