Communication Strategies

The aim is to enable young people, parents, carers, wider family, school staff and organisations to communicate more effectively using the young person’s preferred method.

This may include a range visual communication strategies:

a personal profile
symbol based communication
object based communication
use of mobile phone / tablet technology

The steps involved in this type of activity include:

a face to face or video meeting with parents, carers, wider family, school staff and organisations to gather information on current communication strategies and any specific issues
face to face meetings with young people to look at their current and preferred style of communication and get their views on how well this works
working with the young person to develop a strategy or strategies that they could use effectively
reviewing and modifying the strategy or strategies with everyone involved

Each session will normally last for an hour. Some steps in this process may take more than one session depending on the needs of the young person.