A Critical Reflection on How Sensory Stories Facilitate High Quality Teaching and Learning for Children with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD)

Abstract

This practitioner research paper is an investigation into the use of Sensory Stories in a class with children with PMLD and whether it constitutes as 'High Quality Teaching and Learning' with this cohort. The results suggest that the use of Sensory stories did indeed help students to reach their targets. This success may be partially or greatly due to the use of 'intensive interaction' in conjunction with the sensory stories and signposts further research into the two.