Communication and Interaction
Communication and Interaction | ||
Children and young people who find it difficult to interact with the people and the world around them. | ||
Types of need and what that could look like Some things that children might find difficult are:
| Examples of support available in our school
| How we check it is working |
• Talking to adults and or children and young people, especially when in a group. • Talking about a topic they haven’t chosen to talk about. • Making friends or keeping friends. • Following rules made by someone else. • Dealing with changes in the way they usually do things. • Dealing with noise, smells or other sensations around them. • Saying what they are thinking or feeling. • Understanding what other people mean when they are talking. *Find it difficult to express themselves. | • Teachers change what they are teaching or the way that they teach to help the child or young person learn more with the rest of the class. • Use support programmes especially made to help the child or young person to build communication and interaction skills – for example, social use of language or sensory groups. • Use resources in the classroom to help the child or young person understand or deal with things that are happening – for example, visual timetables, task boards, social stories. • Get advice from professionals and specially trained staff in school to give advice. • Use good role models to support interaction. • Friendship circles and lunch time clubs to support during unstructured times, e.g. mindfulness colouring, lego therapy *Use Wellcomm speech and language assessment to set targets.
| *Observations of the child or young person to see if they are communicating or interacting differently. • Look at targets set to see if the child or young person has achieved them. • Talk to adults who have worked with the child or young person. • Talk to the child or young person. • Talk to parents. • Use emotions cards and prompts |