“Listen to Me”: Supporting Learners with Multi-Sensory Impairment (MSI)

MSI learners are a unique group of children with distinctive needs for learning and development. All children and young people with MSI experience the following difficulties:

- Access to information about the world
- Communication and forming relationships
- Independent movement and mobility

This presents huge challenges for their support and learning needs. A ‘one size fits all’ model is not effective and person-centred approaches are essential in planning interventions and packages of support.

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Giving Families More Tools To Stay Involved In Education

Whether you are practicing communicating so you can express yourself to your family, learning about social rules so you can visit more places in the community safely or even preparing for big events like attending a wedding or going on holiday, being able to transfer your learning from the classroom to your home is an amazing achievement, and one that offers up so many more opportunities to enrich your life outside school or college.

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Autism Accreditation Surveys

As part of our Autism Accreditation quality assurance, we want to make sure that autistic people, their families and other professionals are able to give their views about our service so that we can be sure we're getting it right.

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Oscar winning film demonstrates the importance of Communication for Life

Seashell Trust was delighted to see The Silent Child named best live action short film at last night’s Oscars. The British film tells the story of Libby, a profoundly deaf four year old who struggles to communicate until she is taught sign language by a social worker.  It features Maisie Sly in the title role, a six year old from Swindon who is also profoundly deaf.

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Greater Manchester High Sheriff visit

The High Sheriff of Greater Manchester Gerry Yeung and his wife Joanne visited Seashell Trust earlier this month, touring the site and delighting children like Lucas who loved trying on the Sheriff's hat!

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Scarecrow Festival

This half term, some famous faces were to be spotted around our onsite care homes - at least, some straw-filled lookalikes were. Children and young adults helped put the 'care' in Scarecrow Festival as each house decorated a scarecrow to resemble a famous popstar.

Any guesses who some of these might be?

This guitarist - with bright red hair - was spotted enjoying the sunshine in Stoller Close

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Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Royal College Manchester's students have expanded the college newspaper, a termly newspaper published by the students describing what was going on around the college campus and often including items of interest like traffic surveys, information about extra-curricular activities and reviews. It's a great tool to make sure everyone hears about important changes and can get to know more about their fellow students.

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Lex Autolease volunteers get down to business!

On 7th September, a team of volunteers from Lex Autolease visited Seashell Trust's campus in Cheadle Hulme. The team of volunteers toured the site, meeting some of the staff (not least Chance, the hearing dog!) and students, and helped look after our gardens. The start of the new school year always means a lot of hustle and bustle onsite and their help means that more children and young people can keep playing in the gardens for longer!

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Summer at Seashell

It's the middle of the summer and most of our students are enjoying the holiday with their families. But even though the school year is over, our site is still busy!

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Jamie's work on display at Visual Arts Festival

Royal School Manchester pupil Jamie Thomas has always loved art. Visiting galleries and sculpture gardens rank highly amongst his favourite things to do, and he can often be seen taking photographs of everyday objects and scenes around the school. Using his iPad, Jamie takes multiple pictures to explore the object from different angles, edits them and displays them all together as thumbnails on his iPad screen. Viewed all together, the pictures display all the different ways that object can appear - allowing Jamie to better see and understand the whole item.

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Supported Internship Success

Royal College Manchester first launched its supported internship pilot three years ago in response to a worrying national trend that sees many young disabled people unable to find work. By teaching necessary work and communication skills in real-world settings, staff felt that our students would be better placed to transition their skills into future workplaces.

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Manchester Grammar School volunteering visit

Students from Manchester Grammar School have been volunteering at Seashell Trust! The school has supported Seashell Trust's work for several years, arranging trips to volunteer and take part in disability awareness sessions, and this year their help was more welcome than ever.

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