Shifting perceptions

Author: Julia Tester
Magazine issue: Summer 07
Page numbers: 4-5
Date: 28 May 2007
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Julia Tester is a curriculum leader and a teacher of communication in a further education college. This article reflects on a small scale curriculum action research project using Somerset Total Communication with two groups of learners with severe and complex needs resulting from congenital or acquired difficulties. In the course of the research Julia became particularly aware of the benefits of giving the learners more time to respond.