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Have you ever felt like the child in this photo? Have you felt so incredibly frustrated and angry that you just can’t express how you feel? Where the best you can do is shout or lash out and hope someone gets the message? Or even cry? Is this what it's like having communication impairment?
As teachers, we may often encounter students with communication difficulties, but what does this really mean for us as educators? What are our roles and responsibilities towards these students? How can we maximise their learning opportunities? What is the impact on these individuals and on society, and just how prevalent is this impairment? Most importantly, as a teacher, what does it mean for us when our students have a communication impairment?
There are so many questions and copious amounts of information ‘out there’ but where do you start looking?
Well, this site aims to provide the starting point and lead you to further sources of information.
So, read on…
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