• Children's Social Care and Preventative Services

    Communicating with Children who have a Disability: Capturing their Views and Wishes

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    Course overview



    Eligibility: This course is open to everyone who works with children.

    The need to successfully capture the views and wishes of children is a concept that is both philosophically shared as well as embedded in legislation. Those working with children who have a disability need to draw on a skills base of creativity, flexibility and advocacy in order to ensure the voice of each child is captured, valued and used to influence and enhance the quality of their lives and experiences.

    Participants will develop a robust skill set encompassing creativity, flexibility, and advocacy to effectively capture, value, and utilise each child's voice. By doing so, they should be able to enhance the quality of disabled children's lives and experiences.

    Learning outcomes

    As a result of this course, you will have knowledge and skills in the following areas:

    • Consider communication in its widest sense including non-verbal communication and behaviour.
    • Reflect on previous experiences and identified both good practice and factors that may have hampered effective communication.
    • Discuss how to capture and reflect the voice of the child.
    • Become familiar with a range of Alternative and Augmented Communication tools and resources that are used to aid communication, including hi-tech and low-tech systems.
    • Explore how to ascertain the views and wishes of children who don’t use a specific method of communication.

    Charges

    The charge for the course is £120.00, however you may be entitled to a reduced rate, or fully funded place depending on what organisation you work for.

    When you sign up you'll be able to book your place. For those bookings that are not fully funded, we will contact you to arrange payment until we are ready to accept online payments.

    Please refer to our terms and conditions for more information.

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