Help Stop Choking

Increase awareness of choking while eating and all the risk factors of choking. A series of accessible video clips, activities, advice leaflets, posters and recording forms available for free download. Developed by speech and Language therapy with a man who has a learning disability following his own choking experience.

This app will help empower people to increase their knowledge of choking, safe food choices, safe eating behaviors, safe eating environments, first aid, good oral care, Personal Place Mats and how to support communication and choice making.

Free choking awareness app to help save lives. Winner of the Patient Safety and Care Awards 2014. Ideal for raising awareness of choking risk for adults who have learning disabilities, their carers and staff.

Watch 11 video clips to increase your knowledge of,
1. Choking,
2. Making safe food choices,
3. Encouraging safe eating behaviors,
4. Creating safe eating environments,
5. Role of the carer
6. Emergency first aid,
7. Good oral care,
8. Personal Place Mats
9. How to support communication
10. Capacity and choice making.
11. Good ideas to help stop choking

Listen and watch the amazing help stop choking song performed by ‘Guys and Dolls’ a group of adults who have learning disabilities.

Complete the quiz to find out how much you know about choking and then how much you have learned.

The results of the quiz will be collected to help support evaluation of the project. No personal or identifying information will be collected. By downloading this app you are agreeing that the results of your quiz can be collected.

Try the accessible activities following the video clips to help you remember the main points.

Download free
- 9 choking awareness advice leaflets, including how to take medication safely and first aid for someone in a wheelchair.
- 6 choking awareness posters, including high risk choking foods and good ideas to help you slow down.
- Recording forms, including actions to consider following a choking event and Personal Place Mat.

Choking has been identified as one of the leading causes of preventable death in people with learning disability. John, a service user with a learning disability, worked in partnership with Speech and Language therapy and other interested professionals to develop a DVD, activities, posters and advice leaflets.

He hopes, by sharing his story, to improve service user experience and help other people reduce their risk of choking. “before I worked with speech and language therapy I didn’t know choking was so serious. This is me telling my story and how I feel being through it (choking), even if I help one person it will be fantastic”.

This app will help empower people to increase their knowledge of choking, safe food choices, safe eating behaviors, safe eating environments, first aid, good oral care, Personal Place Mats and how to support communication and choice making.

Please note this app has been designed to be used by one individual at a time to enable collection of the quiz results to support evaluation. As you work through the app ticks and shading will show you which parts you have completed.

To use this app with a new individual please uninstall the app following the completion of the final quiz and reinstall to clear the quiz results and reset the memory.