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Ten easy steps to making a passport

1. Choose a child with special educational needs and work out the timescale within which the passport needs to be done in order to be ready before the child leaves your setting. 2. Decide on the areas to describe for your child, such as mobility, communication, and child's interests.
1. Choose a child with special educational needs and work out the timescale within which the passport needs to be done in order to be ready before the child leaves your setting.

2. Decide on the areas to describe for your child, such as mobility, communication, and child's interests.

3. Decide who you want to be involved in writing the passport and collecting information, such as parents and health professionals.

4. Start taking or collecting photos that match the headings you have chosen.

5. Do a draft text - remember to keep it simple, so that it is accessible to children and parents. Check the draft with the child's parents.

6. If the child is able to do so, get them to help choosing the photos and talk with them about the passport and the draft text.

7. Make a lovely book. Presentation is important, so that the child and their family can be proud of the passport and other children are attracted to it.

8. If possible, make a copy of the book, so that the child can have one at home, as well as the one that goes to school.

9. Read it with the child, the child's friends and the child's parents.

10. Take it to the primary school to share it with the children and staff.

Ideally the passport could be left there, so that it can be read several times.