The Three C’s:
Connection, Communication, And Collaboration
“Imagine if Batman never left the Bat Cave. Or if Superman spent all day in the Fortress of Solitude, watching TV. Not very compelling, is it? The fact is that superheroes need to interact with other people, or their superpowers go to waste...You could cultivate all the knowledge, skills, and values you need to make an exceptional impact on the world, but unless you get out and interact with other people, you’ll never realize your full potential.”
The more people we meet on our journey as a charity, the more apparent it becomes that there is a wealth of good work being done by so many people; towards a common goal of improved literacy instruction for those who fit outside that of the typically developing learner. All of us working in seeming isolation until we stumble across each other, via the Twittersphere or similar arena, offering our support of one another and building connections one by one. These connections hearten us, they encourage us and, above all, they strengthen our work and amplify our voices.
Over the past year, we have worked in partnership with some of these people including Marion Stanton of CandLE, Dr. Sarah Moseley, Tina Voizey and Andrea of ATtraining, who have helped us to establish a fantastic offering of professional development for teachers and most recently a parent / carer workshop to bring our community together. With one of the main objectives of Teach Us Too being to share good practice, we are hoping to highlight the work of these committed individuals over the coming weeks and months to build our community and grow our connections. We hope to expand this group as we move forward into the next academic year, thus building an extensive network of likeminded individuals working together and supporting each other.
We had a fantastic conversation last week with Dr. Sharon Arnold, author of ‘Exploring Word Recognition and Listening Comprehension Abilities of Children with Autism who are Non-verbal’ and ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover! Supporting readers with autism who are minimally verbal’ published in the May/June 2022 edition of SEN Magazine. We look forward to sharing more about her work in a further blog post soon.
In the meantime, if you too work in this field and would like to learn more about collaboration and supporting each other, we would love to hear from you. So please do GET IN TOUCH
