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Video Profiling - Enabling children and adults with complex speech, language and communication needs
Video Profiling is a way of securely sharing information regarding learning, communication and independence skills of children and adults with complex speech, language and communication needs.
It was developed by two Speech and Language Therapists working in special school and mainstream school environments with children with a range of diagnoses and needs (e.g. Down's Syndrome, Autism, Language delay/disorder, ASD, Sensory Impairment, Global Developmental Delay, Learning Disabilities).
Videos of skills and achievements are collected and compiled into a Video Profile. The Video Profile can be accessed by people working with that individual to celebrate achievements, monitor progress and make decisions about intervention.
How the Multi-Disciplinary Team will use Video Profiling: some suggestions
Parent:
"My son has a diagnosis of Autism. I like to see what work he is doing at school and how the teaching staff work with him. The Speech and Language Therapist video records sessions with my son so that I can see how to best work with him at home. The video profile makes me motivated to try new strategies and activities. At parents evenings and Annual Reviews the video profile helps everyone focus on my son's skills."
Speech and Language Therapist:
"I work with non-verbal students. One of my intervention priorities to make sure that other people are able to use PECS with my client. I create video profiles so that other professionals and my client’s parents are able to see how their child uses PECS and within which contexts. It’s also a good way of giving me a baseline assessment on which to measure progress".
Teacher
"A video profile enables me to demonstrate what I am teaching my students to their parents. It makes parents evenings more fun and interactive!"
It was developed by two Speech and Language Therapists working in special school and mainstream school environments with children with a range of diagnoses and needs (e.g. Down's Syndrome, Autism, Language delay/disorder, ASD, Sensory Impairment, Global Developmental Delay, Learning Disabilities).
Videos of skills and achievements are collected and compiled into a Video Profile. The Video Profile can be accessed by people working with that individual to celebrate achievements, monitor progress and make decisions about intervention.
How the Multi-Disciplinary Team will use Video Profiling: some suggestions
Parent:
"My son has a diagnosis of Autism. I like to see what work he is doing at school and how the teaching staff work with him. The Speech and Language Therapist video records sessions with my son so that I can see how to best work with him at home. The video profile makes me motivated to try new strategies and activities. At parents evenings and Annual Reviews the video profile helps everyone focus on my son's skills."
Speech and Language Therapist:
"I work with non-verbal students. One of my intervention priorities to make sure that other people are able to use PECS with my client. I create video profiles so that other professionals and my client’s parents are able to see how their child uses PECS and within which contexts. It’s also a good way of giving me a baseline assessment on which to measure progress".
Teacher
"A video profile enables me to demonstrate what I am teaching my students to their parents. It makes parents evenings more fun and interactive!"
Any person working with children with Special Educational Needs will let you know how important it is for everybody to have an understanding of what strategies will maximise children's learning and communication. We developed video profiling as a way of supporting students who were moving to new schools to record their current skills and help new members of staff get to know them quickly.
Over the year we found that creating video profiles also benefitted staff, parents and our students in many ways. Parents enjoyed seeing the skills their children were learning at school, teachers were able to record and monitor progress, Speech and Language Therapists used them to train other professionals and the students loved watching themselves on the videos.
We integrated the video profiles into the school's existing communication and learning packages and the school was awarded a Leading Aspect Award in February in recognition of its whole school approach for supporting staff and parents manage children's communication difficulties.
The Pilot Study:
Chris wrote about his experiences developing video profiles at Hatton school and mainstream schools in Redbridge in the December Issue of the Speech and Language Therapist magazine 'The Bulletin'.
Over the year we found that creating video profiles also benefitted staff, parents and our students in many ways. Parents enjoyed seeing the skills their children were learning at school, teachers were able to record and monitor progress, Speech and Language Therapists used them to train other professionals and the students loved watching themselves on the videos.
We integrated the video profiles into the school's existing communication and learning packages and the school was awarded a Leading Aspect Award in February in recognition of its whole school approach for supporting staff and parents manage children's communication difficulties.
The Pilot Study:
Chris wrote about his experiences developing video profiles at Hatton school and mainstream schools in Redbridge in the December Issue of the Speech and Language Therapist magazine 'The Bulletin'.
“Video profiling offers us the chance to see our son work directly with the speech therapist and see visually what is being done and how it is being done. We find this is a much better way to learn and apply these techniques at home. Reading it on paper is not the same and if we went into school to see it directly, our son would not want to work. It makes the speech therapist’s skills more accessible and real which enables us to help our son better.”
- Mary and Chris, London. Parents of child who has a diagnosis of Autism.
"Superb idea. Practical, efficient and accessible for those who need it to be."
- Student SLT, London.
"I think your idea is great, because too many people are involved in one child's case making team work and collaborating difficult."
- SLT, Cyprus.
- Mary and Chris, London. Parents of child who has a diagnosis of Autism.
"Superb idea. Practical, efficient and accessible for those who need it to be."
- Student SLT, London.
"I think your idea is great, because too many people are involved in one child's case making team work and collaborating difficult."
- SLT, Cyprus.
2008
Video Profiling Ltd
- Children & young people
- Adults (e.g. professional, parents)
- Education
- Social care
- Health care
- Transition
- Training