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Ordinarily Available Inclusive Practice (OAIP)
Annex Section 2: Early Years Foundation Stage: ‘Ordinarily Available Inclusive Provision’ guide
Early Years Communication and Interaction (ordinarily available)
Early years: child can find it difficult to understand or use social rules of communication

Early years: child can find it difficult to understand or use social rules of communication

Strategies and approaches:

Use modelling / role play.
Implement small group sessions .
Use social stories.
Give prompts – symbols, signing systems.
Use visual supports for routines e.g. Now (you are doing this) and Next (you are going to be doing that) boards.

Information from the National Autistic Society on social stories:

Social Stories and Comic Strip Conversations

What is a Social Story

Carol Gray Social Stories

IDP: Supporting Children on the Autistic Spectrum

Last updated 2 November 2021