Lámh Day in Children’s Health Ireland

Children’s Health Ireland is delighted to be celebrating Lámh Day 2021 

The theme of this year’s Lámh Day is “Where do you Lámh?” 

Lámh is a manual sign system used by children and adults with intellectual disabilities and communication needs in Ireland.  We have children who use Lámh attending our hospitals and outpatient departments.  Some of these children may have a specific diagnosis e.g. Down Syndrome, ASD, and other children may not be able to communicate through speech following medical interventions e.g. post tracheostomy. 

We want to use Lámh Day to raise awareness of Lámh among staff in CHI.  We want to show families that their children can Lámh when they come to CHI.

About the sign system Lámh

Lámh currently has 586 signs.  There were new signs added from sports and technology added in 2019. With Lámh, speech is always used and key words in a sentence are signed.  Using Lámh signs can reduce frustration, as the Lámh user is able to use signs to ask for what they want, to answer and to take part in the conversation.

Children’s Health Ireland will today launch the ‘Sign of the month’ initiative and Introduction to Lámh staff training.  We ask our staff, patients and families to keep an eye out on our digital screens across all our sites for the ‘Sign of the month’, and to learn along with us. We are grateful to the families of Lámh users attending Down Syndrome Wicklow.  They have advised us on signs they would most like staff to know. 

Please visit www.lamh.org for information about Lámh and Lámh training.

Happy Lámh Day from us all in Children’s Health Ireland.

Sign of the month initiative: Each month we will have a sign play on our internal screens so that all staff, patients and families can learn Lámh along with us.

MonthSignLink to video
October 2021Hellohttps://vimeo.com/630890323/4f0dfba21d
November 2021Goodbyehttps://vimeo.com/630889597/8751c5b4bd
December 2021Thank youhttps://vimeo.com/630889965/f24f7879a5
January 2022Doctorhttps://vimeo.com/630889810/62cd46cab8
February 2022Nursehttps://vimeo.com/630890162/47ef86a0e2
March 2022Sickhttps://vimeo.com/630890068/567d7bbdd3
April 2022Painhttps://vimeo.com/630890008/025e43c787
May 2022Toilethttps://vimeo.com/630889913/45af295cad
June 2022Medicinehttps://vimeo.com/630890252/cfc6509631
July 2022Helphttps://vimeo.com/630890517/b95574cd58
August 2022Eathttps://vimeo.com/630889752/ae3a8d82c1