Environment
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The environment of the Balanced System is where you can find ideas, suggestions and resources that can help you organise your setting or school environment to help children develop their understanding, talking and communication. You will find suggestions of simple changes that can help a lot through to ideas of resources and adaptations that might be advised by a speech and language therapist.
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These resourcess offer individualised support. 4 matching resources have been found.
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BCTC Toolkit - Visual Support
Blackpool Classrooms That Communicate is a curated collection of resources and advice that puts speech, language & communication at the heart of helping staff to help the children and young people they work with. This includes a wide range of resources and information on the use of visuals to help support the understanding of written and spoken language. These can used with all children including those who find it difficult to listen, process and remember.
Cost: Free
BCTC Toolkit - Effective Surroundings
Blackpool Classrooms That Communicate is a curated collection of resources and advice that puts speech, language & communication at the heart of helping staff to help the children and young people they work with. This includes a wide range of information on how to creative effective surroundings for learning.
Cost: Free
AAC information
A range of information to support use of augmentative and alternative communication approaches. This include the “Focus On…” series of eight leaflets cover topics related to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). They are available in print copy and as downloadable PDF files.
Teen Life Programme
Teen Life is a support programme for parents and carers, offering advice and guidance on strategies and approaches to working with autistic children and young people aged 10-16 years. The Teen Life programme aims to empower parents and supporting professionals to understand more about how autism is experienced by autistic teenagers.
