LEVELS OF COMMUNICATION

Level 1

This is generally aimed at the pre-verbal students. Many of the activities are sensory-based and encourage early communication skills, such as developing choice making, intentionality, turn taking and joint focus of attention. Activities in the Emerging communication level focus on repetitive interactive play skills along with expoloratory play.

Level 2

This is aimed at the student who has begun to communicate either verbally, with signing or with assisted communication. The games are ideally suited to classroom activities for use alongside the topic of the term, and encourage the development of basic social skills as well as encouraging increased use of a variety of language structures, such as prepositional phrases and adjectival phrases. Children at the Developing Communications level are involved in investigative play, interactive and pretend play.

LEVELS OF COMMUNICATION

Level 3

This consists of more advanced investigative play, pretend play and imaginative play together with social play. The Expanding level of the Framework expects the child to have learned the basic social rules of play and to have developed reasonable listening and attention skills. It is at this level that we are encouraging expansion of grammatical structures through the activities and the appearance of more converational skills. Games used at this level employ more advanced investigative play, pretend play and imaginative play together with social play.