Playground Initiatives

Communication Boards

This project is a wonderful initiative under Healthy Leitrim.

Leitrim County Council has installed special communication boards in 22 playgrounds around the county to promote inclusion and better communication between non-verbal children and families.
Communication Boards support any person (young or old) who at any stage may have difficulty being able to communicate or understand. This may be those with Down Syndrome, our autistic community, those with English as an additional language, children with speech sound disorders such as verbal dyspraxia, those with receptive/expressive language difficulties such as developmental language disorder, those with anxiety around speaking, situational mutism and many more.

Communication takes many different forms. Everybody has the potential to communicate, and all forms of communication are equally recognised and valued.

Communications-Board-image

Consultation:

Extra Special Down Syndrome group
RainChild - Autism group
Leitrim Speech & Language Therapist - Joanna Elomari.
The Irish Association of Speech & Language Therapists (IASLT)
Donal O’Neill Kerry CoCo

Finding Charlie’s Voice:

Finding Charlie's Voice is an Irish Registered Charity (CHY22899) that supports children and young adults with speech and language communication needs in Ireland. Finding Charlie’s Voice is a leading supplier of Communication Boards in Ireland.