FAQs

Section 5 — Schools & Nurseries

  • Yes. Poodle Talk can be used in classrooms, intervention spaces, nurture groups, and SEND environments. The platform provides communication tools, visual supports, emotional wellbeing resources, and age-appropriate learning activities that can complement existing classroom practices.

  • Yes. Poodle Talk includes child-friendly communication and wellbeing features that are suitable for early years settings. Visual supports, picture cards, simple communication tools, and gentle learning activities can help support young children's development in a calm and engaging way.

  • Schools can support emotional wellbeing by creating safe, supportive environments where children feel listened to, valued, and understood. Emotional literacy activities, visual supports, wellbeing resources, positive relationships, and opportunities for communication can all help children develop confidence and resilience.

  • Nurseries can support communication development through everyday interactions, storytelling, songs, visual supports, play-based learning, and opportunities for children to express themselves. Providing rich language experiences and responding positively to all forms of communication can help children build communication skills over time.

  • Yes. Teachers, teaching assistants, nursery practitioners, and other education professionals can use Poodle Talk as part of communication support, emotional wellbeing activities, and classroom routines. The platform is designed to complement, rather than replace, existing educational approaches.

  • Yes. Poodle Talk was designed with communication, emotional wellbeing, and accessibility in mind. Many features, including picture communication tools, visual supports, and structured interactions, may be helpful within SEND settings and for children with a wide range of communication needs.

  • Poodle Talk's AAC-inspired communication tools can be introduced gradually through everyday classroom activities. Visual picture cards, emotion cards, communication supports, and sentence-building tools can be used during lessons, routines, transitions, and wellbeing activities to encourage communication in a natural and accessible way.

    Children can use picture cards to express needs, feelings, choices, and everyday experiences, while the sentence-building feature allows them to combine symbols and words into simple messages. This can help children communicate with teachers, teaching assistants, peers, and family members across different environments.

    By providing regular opportunities for visual communication and creating a supportive classroom culture, schools can help children build confidence, participation, and self-expression at their own pace.