4 February 2005

Moor House school is pioneering visual approaches to speech,

writes Diana Hinds.....

Occupational therapists - the school has 1.9 full-time equivalents - work generally with small groups. Many of the children have short attention spans, but are strongly visual learners, and the classrooms abound in visual stimuli

These include Thrass charts (www.thrass.co.uk), which support literacy and phonological awareness by displaying a colour-coded phoneme box for each sound in English; and a cued articulation system (www.stasspublications.co.uk), which provides a hand sign for each phoneme.....

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