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News for 2021

The world may still be topsy turvey but there are lots of Storysharing® developments to celebrate. We are exploring how to combine our work with other approaches. First event is Storysharing and Story Massage Thursday 21st January 4.30pm-5.30pm.. book here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/personal-storysharing-with-story-massage-tickets-135703014369

Sharing stories with Key Word Sign is on Thursday February 18th 4.30-5.30pm. So many people with communication difficulties use signing, but often the focus is just on learning more single signs. With Charlotte Parkhouse and Gareth Smith from Communicapers (https://www.communicapers.co.uk) we explore new research on their creative use of sign and gesture in conversation and storytelling. Book here

(https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sharing-stories-with-key-word-signers-tickets-136270309163

Sharing stories with Key Word Signers is on Thursday February 18th 4.30-5.30pm

And in March we will be looking into self advocacy and Storysharing.

These events are free to parents and carers, please email info@storysharing.org.uk for a code

Self Advocacy for People with Profound disabilities

Great event today from Learning Disability England https://www.learningdisabilityengland.org.uk

Lovely presentations from Campaign4Change with a beautiful film showing how to achieve community presence https://www.achievetogether.co.uk/about/campaign-for-change-c4c

And stories from parents about how they support and work with their young adults to make things happen. Thanks to all

Congratulations to our Registered Practitioners…

We are delighted to celebrate the achievements of Ashleigh Paddon, Jess Meredith Wickes and Jade Cook. Ashleigh is a Speech and Language therapist who has a wonderful website at https://the-therapy-tree.com; Jess is well known to you all as one of the stars of Abbie’s hospital visit, and has been using Storysharing for some years; Jade Cook is the Director of Spectrum Community Arts (www.spectrumca.co.uk ). Looking forward to exploring new directions for Storysharing in 2021.

Workshop: Assessment, Curriculum & Progression

Thursday 12th November 2020 4-5.30pm/Saturday 14th November 2020 10.00-11.30 with Nicola Grove, Flo Hopwood, Katrina Arab. For current trainees and registered practitioners. Zoom link will be sent individually. Come with your experience of how to embed Storysharing® across the day, and to recognise links with your existing assessment models and frameworks.

Surviving Through Story Articles

We are delighted to have had a number of articles published on the topic of Surviving through Story.

Surviving through Stories
How people with learning disabilities are getting through COVID
Community Living – coming soon October 16th www.cl-initiatives.co.uk

Surviving through Story – documenting lives in lockdown and beyond PMLD Link 32 issue 96. As a Guest Subscribers and get free access to almost 30 years of journals – filled with stories of the real lives and experiences of individuals with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) www.pmldlink.org.uk

International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication newsletter May 2020
Surviving through Story: COVID-19 personal narratives for children and adults with communication and learning disabilities

We were also delighted to be interviewed by Amber and Lucy on Frozen Light
Episode 5 frozenlighttheatre.com/podcast/