Engaging children with severe and profound disabilities to build communication

School of Education, Malaysia Campus invites you to attend a seminar entitled 'Engaging children with severe and profound disabilities to build communication.' 

Children with severe intellectual impairment, who often have a dual diagnosis of ASD, can be the most difficult to engage with any adult choice of activity. This makes them some of the most challenging students to teach. To address this Anne, and her colleague Dr Jackie Dearden, have developed the MORE model (Means, Opportunities, Reasons and Expectations). In this workshop Anne will present approaches from her own research, illustrated with video. More information on the MORE model can be obtained from: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnint.2013.00045/full 

Details:
Date: 7 October 2015, Wednesday
Time: 14:15 to 15:45
Venue: F1A23  
             The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
             Jalan Broga 43500 Semenyih Selangor Darul Ehsan

About the speaker: 
Dr Anne Emerson worked as a speech and language therapist with children and adults before becoming a researcher. She is currently Associate Professor of Special Education Needs at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research interests are augmentative and alternative communication approaches, the development of engagement and the impact of special needs on self-esteem and behaviour.