Communicaton Films
Adjusting Your Language
Sharon Smith from the Pines training team looks at effective communication. This includes using simple clear language, using gestures, using visuals and giving thinking time. This video will be helpful for anyone working with a child with neurodevelopmental differences.
Attention & Listening
Children’s Listening and Attention skills underpin their ability to follow instructions and to understand and learn language. They are also important for children’s early literacy skills. This video training is just over 30 minutes long and helps us to reflect on children’s development of listening and attention in the early years and strategies we can use to support developing listening and attention.
Listening Checklist
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Communication Tree
There are many different skills involved in learning to talk. This video looks at a model called the ‘Communication Tree’ to explore how children’s communication skills develop and what they need from the adults around them for their communication skills to grow.
Communication Tree Handout
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The Highlands Words Up!
If your child is under 5, please visit the Highlands Words Up! page to access Words Up films.
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Talking Mats
This film from Call Scotland has lots of information about making and using Talking Mats