{"id":28087,"date":"2024-11-27T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings-new\/?page_id=28087"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:30:14","slug":"early-communication-choice-making","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\/early-communication-choice-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Communication &#8211; Choice making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Choice making allows a learner to express their wants and needs, have an influence over the things they do, and learn that choices have consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Familiar objects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To begin, start with 2 familiar objects to choose from, e.g. 2 toys, 2 fruits, 2 books.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make sure the 2 objects contrast well with the surface they are presented on.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It helps if one of the objects is highly preferred (this will reduce random choices).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give time to look, to process and to respond to the objects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once a choice is made, remove the other object and give the learner child to explore their chosen object.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make a note of consistent choices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next steps: Photos of familiar objects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Once the learner is making consistent choices using familiar objects, you can replace them with photos of the actual objects instead.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the learner is consistently making choices using the actual photos of objects, you may want to explore using symbols instead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact your Advisory Teacher for additional advice and support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choice making allows a learner to express their wants and needs, have an influence over the things they do, and learn that choices have consequences. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2646,"featured_media":0,"parent":28077,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-28087","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 23:27:40","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\/28087","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=28087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29670,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28087\/revisions\/29670"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}