(Seashell Trust, 2013)

“Our children, young people and adults have a combination of one or more of the following: a hearing impairment, a visual impairment, multi-sensory impairment, autism, physical

disability and profound and multiple learning difficulties. All our children and young people have some degree of learning disability and,

critically, all of them have little or no ability to communicate” (Seashell Trust, 2013)

(Seashell Trust, 2013)

(Seashell Trust, 2013)

Communication• British Sign Language • PEC’s • Widgits • Olfaction

(Seashell Trust, 2013)

Sign Language• All staff are taught how to sign

• All staff and students who can sign are encouraged to at all times.

(Seashell Trust, 2013)

PEC’s• ‘PECS begins by teaching an individual to give

a picture of a desired item to a “communicative partner?, who immediately honors the exchange as a request. The system goes on to teach discrimination of pictures and how to put them together in sentences. In the more advanced phases, individuals are taught to answer questions and to comment’ (PECS. 2012. Online).

(Seashell Trust, 2013)

Widgits• ‘Widgit produce a wide range of symbol-

supported learning materials and symbol stories, including extensive topic-based packs 'ready to go' for special and mainstream education, developed by the Symbol Inclusion Project’ (Widgit, 2013. Online)

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Olfaction• ‘Our students may be deaf, blind, have

reduced tactile sensation, be unable to eat or even taste foods by mouth or be unable to participate in most vestibular and proprioceptive activities because of medical conditions like orthostatic hypotension or brittle bones. These means that the sense of smell may be the most powerful means of accessing our students skills’ (Blogspot, 2010)

(Seashell Trust, 2013)

Seashell Trust The Seashell Trust is a fantastic organisation

which a range of communication methods.

The staff are successful in communicating with

all students in their own individual ways.

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http://teachinglearnerswithmultipleneeds.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/learning-through-olfactory-sense.html] •  • PECS. What is PECS?. (2012). Online. [Accessed on 20.12.2013] [ Retrieved from http://www.pecs-unitedkingdom.com/pecs.php] • • Seashell Trust, (2013). Welcome to Seashell Trust. Online. [Accessed on 6.11.13][Retrieved from http://www.seashelltrust.org.uk/] • • Seashell Trust, (2013).Creative Studies. Online. [Accessed on 6.11.13][Retrieved from http://www.seashelltrust.org.uk/creative-studies] • • Seashell Trust, (2013). State of Independence. Online. . [Accessed on 6.11.13][Retrieved from

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http://www.seashelltrust.org.uk/royal-school-manchester] •  • Widgit. Widgit symbol resource packs. (2013). Online. [Accessed on 20.12.2013] [Retrieved from

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