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What is Tools for Schools? How can the Inclusion Framework and OAIP support my setting?

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  2. SEND toolkit
  3. Ordinarily Available Inclusive Practice (OAIP)
  4. Section 2: Ordinarily available support for children and young people in mainstream settings
  5. Communication and interaction (ordinarily available)
  6. Child or young person does not understand or use social rules of communication.

Child or young person does not understand or use social rules of communication.

Provisions and /or strategies

  • Use modelling / role play.
  • Implement small group sessions e.g. Circle of friends
  • 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.

Last updated 15 September 2021

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