Communicate with Me
Communicate with Me provides a quality assurance framework with a set of comprehensive tools and guidance to support services to achieve effective communication with children and young people with a learning disability who use alternative methods of communication.
Communicate with Me will support your service by providing: -
- Guidance in establishing Total Communication within settings;
- Support in meeting government legislation and most up to date best practice;
- A flexible framework that is delivered at your pace that enables a whole service approach to establishing and enabling Total Communication;
- Support in achieving successful augmentative and alternative communication strategies;
- Recognition of achievements in communicating with disabled children and young people through an award framework.
The Communicate with Me standards framework is for universal and specialist settings that work with children and young people with a learning disability. The Communicate with Me ® toolkit is suitable for a wide range of services including play services, residential and short break services, leisure services, youth services, inclusive and special education.
Communicate with Me is designed to support the whole organisation to make positive changes at every level. Pockets of good practice exist in all organisations; Communicate with Me celebrates achievements and provides the tools and structure to enable the whole of the organisation to effectively respond to individualsed communication needs.
The Communicate with Me toolkit provides support and guidance ranging from writing communication policies to supporting frontline staff to make communication aids. The Communicate with Me quality assurance framework is divided into sections that are tailored to support different work roles within the organisation, inclusive of management and frontline staff.
Communicate with Me will launch later this year. Please come back or register your interest to recieve news and updates.
