The story so far...

Any person working with children with Special Educational Needs will let you know how important it is for everybody to have an understanding of what strategies will maximise children's learning and communication. We developed video profiling as a way of supporting students who were moving to new schools to record their current skills and help new members of staff get to know them quickly.

Over the year we found that creating video profiles also benefitted staff, parents and our students in many ways. Parents enjoyed seeing the skills their children were learning at school, teachers were able to record and monitor progress, Speech and Language Therapists used them to train other professionals and the students loved watching themselves on the videos.

We integrated the video profiles into the school's existing communication and learning packages and the school was awarded a Leading Aspect Award in February in recognition of its whole school approach for supporting staff and parents manage children's communication difficulties.

The Pilot Study

Chris wrote about his experiences developing video profiles at Hatton school and mainstream schools in Redbridge in the December Issue of the Speech and Language Therapist magazine 'The Bulletin'.

Click here to read the article.

We are currently gathering feedback from people who have received video profiles and hope to make this available soon.