{"id":28077,"date":"2024-11-27T15:29:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings-new\/?page_id=28077"},"modified":"2024-12-18T11:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T11:56:44","slug":"early-communication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/send\/areas-of-need\/sensory-and-or-physical\/multi-sensory-impairment\/early-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Early communication is not always intentional and is not always easy to recognise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General points to consider:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Give enough time to receive, process and respond.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use a consistent approach, e.g. an agreed set of signs \/ symbols.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treat all behaviour as communication.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Daily opportunities to communicate their wants \/ needs \/ preferences.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Observe responses, identify any patterns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are some of the strategies we use to support early communication:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"content-menu content-menu-default clearfix\" id=\"block_acf-block-6762b87a8a305\"><ul class=\"grid-x grid-margin-x small-up-1 medium-up-2 large-up-2 content-menu-container\"><li class=\"cell content-menu-item item-1\"><div class=\"content-menu-inner\"><h3 class=\"content-menu-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/send\/areas-of-need\/sensory-and-or-physical\/multi-sensory-impairment\/early-communication\/early-communication-preferences\/\">Preferences<\/a><\/h3><\/div><\/li><li class=\"cell content-menu-item item-2\"><div class=\"content-menu-inner\"><h3 class=\"content-menu-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/send\/areas-of-need\/sensory-and-or-physical\/multi-sensory-impairment\/early-communication\/early-communication-choice-making\/\">Choice Making<\/a><\/h3><\/div><\/li><li class=\"cell content-menu-item item-3\"><div class=\"content-menu-inner\"><h3 class=\"content-menu-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/send\/areas-of-need\/sensory-and-or-physical\/multi-sensory-impairment\/early-communication\/early-communication-total-communication\/\">Total Communication<\/a><\/h3><\/div><\/li><li class=\"cell content-menu-item item-4\"><div class=\"content-menu-inner\"><h3 class=\"content-menu-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/send\/areas-of-need\/sensory-and-or-physical\/multi-sensory-impairment\/early-communication\/early-communication-objects-of-reference-oor\/\">Objects of reference<\/a><\/h3><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early communication is not always intentional and is not always easy to recognise. General points to consider: Below are some of the strategies we use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2646,"featured_media":0,"parent":8151,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-28077","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 19:25:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28077"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30163,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28077\/revisions\/30163"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}