Show a young child a picture and chances are they will remember a surprising number of details from it. This receptiveness to visual images is being used by some nurseries as a way to involve children and enhance their communication skills.
Rather than being part of an established system such as Picture Exchange Communication System, where cards are used as language aids for children with speech difficulties, practitioners are devising their own methods based on simple nursery photographs.
At Tamworth Early Years Centre in Staffordshire, I have been using photographs taken by myself and other members of staff to assist children with a variety of special needs. I used the photographs to make pictorial registers, choice boards, 'now' and 'next' boards and photographs of the different areas of the nursery.
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