This blog was written by Martin Cumming of St Paul’s Nursery School, York.
Martin has worked at St Paul’s Nursery School in York for almost five years and has been teaching for almost 18 years. He is a trained teacher, SENCO, Lead Communication Practitioner and Assistant Head Teacher. Martin is passionate about creating neuro affirming practice within settings and has a real interest in neuro diversity and speech, language and
communication development.
We have come a long way in our Communication Friendly Setting journey in the past three years. But in the words of Ronan Keating, and I do not use his lyrics in everything I write, ‘Life is a rollercoaster, just gotta ride it!’ Funny when ‘gotta’ is not really the language that we should be modelling!
This is the first of three blogs about our Communication Friendly Setting Journey, how we found ELKLAN, how ELKLAN found us and the impact that it has had on our children’s development and staff practice. The first part of our journey looks at the intent.
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