HOW DOES ATTENTION SPAN DIFFER FROM NEUROTYPICAL AND NEURODIVERGENT CHILDREN?

HOW DO TOYS AND GAMES HAVE TO DIFFER?

ARE THE SENSORY TOYS ON THE MARKET DOING ENOUGH?

HOW DO I ATTRACT THE ATTENTION AND RAISE AWARENESS?

HOW CAN I CREATE A SENSORY EXPERIENCE WITHIN MY WORK - INTERACTIVE?

HOW CAN IT BE PUT BACK INTO THE SPACE I WANT- CLASSROOM?

DO I WANT TO CREATE AN ITEM AND BE INFORMATIVE AT THE SAME TIME? DOES THAT OVERCOMPLICATE?

HOW CAN I UNDERSTAND WHAT CHILDREN WOULD LIKE?

WHERE ACN I GATHER PRIMARY AND SECONDARY RESEARCH?

WHERE CAN I VISIT?

WHO CAN I INTERVIEW?

COULD I LOOK AT A TYPICAL SENSORY ROOM AND FIND IMPROVEMENTS?

HOW DO WE PLAY?

WHAT FAULTS ARE IN THE WAY WE TEACH?

IS ART IN PRIMARY SCHOOL TAUGHT IN A WAY THAT RESTRICTS CREATIVITY?

ARE THERE DIFFERENT TYPES OF LEARNERS?

WHAT DOES A SENSORY ROOM CONSIST OF?

DO I WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING THST GOES BACK INTO THE SPACE OF A SENSORY ROOM?

looking at how that might effect attention

What facilities do you have on place to support these pupils?

And how would you train staff to deal with a melt down?

How does the EHCP plan work?

Then I’d like to visit secondary schools as a point of comparison to see how the accommodation to SENCO pupils change as they grow. I also wish to visit places that are well known to accommodate to children with special educational needs such as Lego Land and The Postal Museum who get very frequent visits from children with autism. Visiting an exhibition during my R2R project helped me to gain first hand experience and get a better understanding of my topic, also interacting with someone else through conversation is also something that I am very interested in throughout specialism, even down to verbal feedback which is why interview will be a major part of research. Throughout my primary research I also want to develop secondary research by looking at psychological studies that i’ve linked as part of my references. For example, looking at at how concentration is altered in children with sensory issues, as well as that looking at my topic of how Graphic communicators approach work in these environments by looking at books such as ‘LOOK AT ME!- poster designs’ which has a selection of poster designs made from designers globally looking at grasping attention which will back up primary investigation and prompt experimentation.

I work in a primary school club 1on1 with pupils that need extra support, this club focuses on a variety of creative play such as gardening, art and music. Having this experience led me to want to investigate how pupils with special needs are accommodated to in a normal day to day setting and the facilities that are used to accommodate to them such as sensory rooms. I also want to investigate; through speaking to the SENCO leaders in an interview at the training that is in place and whether they believe they are doing enough. The subject I’d like to take forward is a combination of those things by unpacking the ways schools accommodate to children, looking at the ways children learn, how guided play could be a positive or negative, the ways that children meltdown are dealt with and how helpful sensory rooms can be.