Understand how to communicate with children and young people
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Communicating with children: Principles and practices to nurture, inspire, excite, educate and heal' by Unicef
- 'Other ways of speaking’ produced by The Communication Trust
- 'Communicating with children and young people who have severe learning difficulties’ from the Me First website
- 'Universally Speaking - Ages and stages of children's communication development’ on the Speech and Languarge UK website
- 'How to use good communication skills for cross-cultural diversity’ on the Chron: Small Business website
- 'Creating a communication supportive environment’ produced by ICAN.
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘Effective communication’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘Body language’.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- ‘Focus on…Let your hands do the talking: Using sign systems for communication’ leaflet from Communication Matters. Click to read about communicating using body language and gestures.
- Click to read ‘Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)’ produced by ICAN help.
- This section of the Speech and Language UK website includes a number of resources for those working in education.
- Take time to make yourself familiar with various cultures, unique needs, 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 about how you communicate with the children you support and if there’s anything you could do differently.
- ‘Teaching in multicultural classrooms: tips, challenges and opportunities’ on The Guardian website. Click to read this article by Kerry Eustice.
- Think And Challenge
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