CFE Pack

Making Communication Friendly Environments

The Communication Friendly Environments (CFE) pack is designed to assist and advise you with making your school or centre “communication friendly”.

Communication Friendly Environments link well with the Governments national strategy, the Inclusion Development Programme. The ideas and resources in the CFE pack will support the inclusive strategies, approaches and responses outlined in the Inclusion Development Programme.

Product
What's in each pack
How to use the packs

Product

Pack Name	Application	Price		Size
CFE Pack		£25.00		This resource is supplied on CD only

Files for use in Communicate: In Print 2, including all the additional graphics so that you can tailor the materials to suit your group and make your own materials.
You need 'Communicate: In Print 2' installed to able to use this resource

Files provided as PDF. These do not require symbol software, but you will not be able to edit the activities.
You do not need any Widgit software to be able to use this resource

This pack shows examples of how some schools in Warwickshire are working towards developing a CFE.

The CFE pack is also ideally suited to the residential environment where structure and labelling are a vital part of an individuals day to day routines. Creation of visual timetables and residential labelling are easy with the templates included in the pack.

Section 1

Examples of Communication Friendly Environments in Warwickshire schools 1

Examples of Communication Friendly Environments in Warwickshire schools 2

Photographs and ideas of CFE in Warwickshire schools.

Section 2

Labelling The Classroom

Ideas for labelling the classroom including templates which can be adapted.

Section 3

Labelling rooms

Examples of symbolised signs which can be used around school to label rooms. Can be adapted.

Section 4

Landscape templates

Templates which can be filled in to your own requirements.

Section 5

Rules and behaviour

Examples of symbolised rules and behaviour signs which can be used around schools.

Section 6

Signs around school

Examples of symbolised signs which can be used around school. Can be adapted.

Section 7

Teacher resources

Can be used by teachers/teaching assistants or anyone supporting pupils. Includes tips.

Section 8

Visual Time Table Examples and Templates

Photographs of visual timetable being used in some Warwickshire schools. Includes examples and blank templates.

Section 9

Portrait templates

Templates which can be filled in to your own requirements.

Information

Important Notice

All Widgit resources whether bought or free of charge are protected by copyright. The symbols are copyright Widgit Software or Mayer Johnson LLC and the content of the materials is copyright Widgit Software unless otherwise specified.

You may not under any circumstances distribute these to any third parties, they are for your own use. Distribution of materials is illegal.

Printing the materials from Communicate: In Print 2

The Communicate: In Print 2 set of files are installed into the Communicate files/In Print Writing folder, Widgit Resources. This includes any additional symbols or graphics that are used in the packs, which will be available for you to use in your own materials.

As well as using the materials as supplied, they can be modified or adapted for individual needs, for example by adding or removing symbols to give the most appropriate level of individual support.

You can choose to print these activities in either colour or black and white.

Communicate: In Print gives you the option to print either as single sheets or as books ready to staple and fold. You can also choose to print double sided.

Printing the PDF Files

The PDF version of this pack cannot be configured for individual use, but do not require specific symbol software.

These files can be printed directly from Acrobat Reader. You do not need any of the Widgit Products to access these files, but you will need to have Adobe Acrobat installed.

The A5 booklets need to be printed and then cut in half to make the small books. They have been paginated so that you can print them double sided. Alternatively sort the pages into numerical order before stapling.