Many of our students have communication difficulties, and Bidwell Brook is committed to supporting our students to reach their communicative potential. Communication skills development is built into our curriculum and we have a Total Communication approach throughout the school that ensures that all forms of communication are recognised.

The Communication and Decision Making Team work closely with teaching staff to assess, advise and develop programmes to:

• support children to communicate to the best of their ability
• support parents and staff to provide effective communication environments at home and at school.

BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT
Our aim is to promote safe, respectful and responsible behaviour right across the school community. By responding to behaviour as communication, we are able to provide support for those communicating primarily through their behaviours. We enable students to access and use more socially appropriate methods of communication. Students may be anxious, under stress or emotionally vulnerable and need individual support pathways. These pathways can re-establish, or indeed establish, that interaction with another person can be a positive thing.