We understand the deaf children have a wide range of language and communication experience and preferences. We seek to promote successful communication between individuals no matter their preferred language modality.  

We have a multimodal communication approach whereby a combination of languages and communication tools are used flexibly. 

This includes: 

  • Spoken language and listening skills 
  • Signed language (Sign-Supported English, British Sign Language) 
  • Fingerspelling 
  • Visual Phonics by Hand 
  • Gesture 
  • Facial expression 
  • Visual prompts and pictures 
  • Note-taking 
  • Lipreading. 

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Any questions, please email: 

arp@eps.barking-dagenham.sch.uk