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Be able to communicate with children and young people
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Focus on… Let Your Hands Do the Talking: Using Sign Systems for Communication’, leaflet from Communication Matters
- ‘Children and Young People’s Views: What do children and young people think about speech, language and communication skills?’ from the Communication Trust
- ‘Speech, Language and Communication Needs and Primary School-aged Children’ from ICAN, the children’s communication charity.
- ‘Speech, Language and Communication in Secondary Aged Pupils’ from ICAN
- ‘Communicating with children: Principles and practices to nurture, inspire, excite, educate and heal' by Unicef
- ‘Other ways of speaking’ by The Communication Trust
- ‘Universally Speaking - Ages and stages of children's communication development’ on the ICAN website
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Effective communication'.
- Click to launch this lesson's presentation on ''Body language'.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Read 'How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk' by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, published by Piccadilly Press, 2001.N.B. You do not need to buy this book, your local library service should have a copy.
- ‘Communication friendly – checklist’ by ICAN. Click on the icon to the left to see a checklist, which can be used to check that the learning environment supports children’s communication.
- This article from the National Autistic Society is called ‘Understanding and developing communication’. It looks at communication differences can exist when interacting with an autistic individual.
- Take time to make yourself familiar with various cultures, unique needs, dietary requirements, and special needs for each child in your room. Make a note of your findings and take some time to research them, using the internet, any books or leaflets at your setting or in the local library, the knowledge of your colleagues and, most importantly, the parents of the children themselves.
- Think And Challenge
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