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Focus Group Needed
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We are gathering research on the importance of communication tools for families with Neurodiversity to be able to achieve understanding of thoughts and feelings and build closer relationships.
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Do you have experience of this and can you support us with this research?
Our Research
Purpose
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To gaining evidence to support funding opportunities for our future projects with a focus on benefitting individuals, families and the community. We understand the need for this project, we just need to prove it!
Project
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Encouraging effective communication through story telling - The project goal is to create a book and supporting tools to help achieve better communication within neurodiverse people and their peers whilst in turn, adding to the personal development journeys of our EPIC service users.
People
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Our EPIC participants will be the inspiration, authors and illustrators of this project. Through a series of workshops, our young people will develop skills in team work, creative thinking and literacy whilst creating a tangible and beneficial communication tool.