South Ayrshire Communication Friendly Environments

14/11/2025

⭐️ FANTASTIC FRIDAY! ⭐️

Thank you to the team at Children’s Hearings Scotland for their brilliant engagement during training this week 👏

Many Children’s Panel volunteers throughout Ayrshire are now equipped with a sound knowledge of supportive speech, language and communication strategies and are also Makaton aware. The team also have a range of visual tools which will soon be available to support children and young people during hearings and are planning to undertake further Makaton training in the New Year, as well as incorporating Boardmaker signage in their Hearing Centres 👍

We are just loving everyone’s enthusiasm for the project and during training sessions - thank you! 😊💜

13/11/2025

Claire and Jo had a lovely time at the South Ayrshire ASN Family Forum last night 😊

It was super to connect with families and other amazing services - we loved sharing information about all our Communication Friendly settings in South Ayrshire 👍

Plus we do love some colour coordination! 💙💙

12/11/2025

Hope to see you tonight?

ASN family forum on Wednesday the 12th of November at the cutty sark! Spotty Zebras will be there on the day along with lots of other groups and charities that support ASN children! Please pop in and see what is available xx

11/11/2025

The Connect hub in the Sandgate in Ayr is well on the way to being Communication Friendly 😊

They have clear Boardmaker visual signage on display to help everyone navigate the environment.

They also have visualised ‘Easy Read’ information leaflets available at the front desk with key details about all the services Connect provides - please just ask if you need one 👍

10/11/2025

Thank you so much for the positive feedback - a joy to work with you all 💜

We’re so proud to be recognised as South Ayrshire’s first Communication Friendly Residential Home! We’re so proud of our amazing team and young people at Pleasantfield Cottage for making this happen!

Read below what Shona, the Registered Manager had to say:

“We were so keen to be part of the South Ayrshire Communication Friendly Environments project as our house is based in South Ayrshire and our young people attend local schools. We access local parks and businesses and have had positive experiences in using the communication boards in the community. We were already using symbols in our house but we wanted to have the same symbols so that there was symbol consistency for our young people. Our staff enjoyed the training and our young people got involved too. Jo has helped us immensely with support and training and we look forward to continuing our development and partnership with Speech and Language Therapy. We are very pleased to be South Ayrshire’s first Communication Friendly Residential Home.”

10/11/2025

09/11/2025

09/11/2025

Well Done to pleasentfield Cottage Imagine Care spreading the communication friendly message 🙌 we love working with you guys 🥰

07/11/2025

⭐️ FULLY BOOKED FRIDAY! ⭐️

We are now fully booked for the rest of 2025 so are unable to take on any new settings for the time being. Thank you all for keeping us so busy! 😊

We have plenty availability in January and February, so please still get in touch if you would like to start your Communication Friendly journey in 2026 and we will book you in 💜

06/11/2025

A super Total Communication workshop at Biggart Hospital yesterday - final one of 2025 😊 Wonderful to see lots of new settings beginning their Communication Friendly journey 💜

We will be back with more of these open training sessions in early 2026, so keep a look out for upcoming dates after Christmas 🎄🎅🏻

04/11/2025

We are looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow who has signed up for our Total Communication workshop at Biggart Hospital.

The session will run from 9:30am - 11:30am in the Biggart boardroom - just ask reception for directions if needed 😊

We also have a few last minute spaces available, so please get in touch if you are interested…last chance in 2025! 💜