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Adults with Learning Disabilities or Special Needs

      There are many strategies that can be used to help adults with learning disabilities or special needs. Click on the links below:   Total Communication This is a holistic view of communication, often using a range of modalities or even thinking “outside the box” to create a system of communication that works …

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Adult Learning Disabilities – Behaviour & Communication

      See our Adult Special Needs and Learning Disabilities Home Page for a full list of information about adult learning disabilities, and links to information and strategies relating to communication. Behaviour and Communication Some adults with learning disabilities may display inappropriate or challenging behaviour. Although there are many reasons for this type of …

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Adults with Special Needs and Learning Disabilities

  Adults with Special Needs and Learning Disabilities Adults with with special needs and learning disabilities (also called adult learning difficulties or intellectual difficulties in some countries) often have difficulties with communication which can be related to speech and language, social skills and/or behaviour. However, there are a number of programs and strategies that can …

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Children with Severe Communication Difficulties and High and Complex Needs

      See our Special Needs Header Page for a full list of special needs information and resources   It is important to have a number of functional strategies to help children with severe communication difficulties. For instance, a boy with autism may use visual schedules and strategies, a girl with hearing impairment may …

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Intensive Interaction and Autism

      See our Autism Header Page for a full list of all our Autism resources.   Breaking down the barriers by using an Intensive Interaction approach with individuals with severe autism or communication delay. Non-verbal individuals who have major learning difficulties or “severe” autism are often very difficult to interact with. Not only …

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