You will have seen that what Francesca reports is very much in line with what you have learned in this course so far in terms of teaching senior learners with complex needs at home or in care home settings. The children taught: songs, basic phrases, bingo; and the strategies the children used were: to include everybody even if the resident was not able to speak, using visual aids and different communication skills. 

The most important points to take away from the video relate to the impact of the children teaching the care home residents as described by Francesca, who talks about the mainly social impact, the residents valuing the chance to interact with children in a different way by being more than spectators of children performing, the opportunity to develop a new hobby, the experience of happiness through being taught by children.

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