Winfried Mall

Basic Communication

winfried-mall.ch | concept | Bruno | courses | publications | contact | about me

The Concept of Basic Communication:

Basic Communication has been developed by me, Winfried Mall. It describes a specific way to create communication with persons who cannot communicate via verbal language or other ways using gestures, signs, symbols, etc.:

Personsenjoying time together

  • with a severe cognitve handicap
  • with pronounced autistic behaviour
    and limited verbal ability
  • with apallic syndrome or similar conditions
  • with severe geronto-psychiatric conditions like dementia

This way to communicate can also be utilized with persons without handicaps as a way of psycho-somatic self and partner experience.

calming down in the ball bathIt is characterized by the use of all the multiple bodily behaviours of the addressed person - particularly her/his rhythm of breath - as means of communication, by picking them up, mirroring or varying them, or by offering similar behaviour to stimulate communication, comparable to the development of communication during the first months of a non-handicapped infant.

This way to communicate is applied by parents or relatives of these persons, as well as by people with training in the fields of education, psychology or nursing.

An exemplary encounter by Basic Communication with a blind autistic person with mental retardation:

Basic Communication with Bruno


top of page | back

winfried-mall.ch | concept | Bruno | courses | publications | contact | about me