Talk About Abuse

This vocabulary set was initially designed to assist the work of Intermediaries in their role of supporting people with communication difficulties when being interviewed by the police and in any subsequent court appearances.

It is clear, however, that there are many other situations where a person with communication difficulties might wish or need to talk about abuse and yet have trouble finding a method or the language to "say" what they want. This vocabulary set has been modified to meet this broader purpose.

The vocabulary set was trialled in a number of teaching environments where pupils and students used this vocabulary set to describe each other and their reactions to a range of test situations and scenarios. The vocabulary was found useful in all these settings.

The pack can be also used to facilitate more general discussion about describing people although the pages that refer to intimate body parts may need to be removed. This would allow people in any setting - school, college, respite, care homes, hospital - who have communication difficulties to become familiar with the vocabulary, so that if they subsequently need to report criminal activities they have the vocabulary to do so.

Contents

InPrint 3 Files
Talk about Abuse for InPrint 3 files that can be installed into InPrint 3 ready to be edited, personalised and printed.

The Grid Files
Talk about Abuse files that can be installed into The Grid and The Grid Player to use as a dynamic communication display. Files loaded into The Grid can also be edited and personalised.

PDF Files
Ready to print versions that requires a PDF Reader. There are versions in colour and black & white.