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Developing Essential Skills so People can Reach their Potential with Amy Eleftheriades

December 18, 2020 • Heidi Fisher • Season 3 • Episode 15

Amy Eleftheriades has worked with children, young people and vulnerable adults in social care, health and education for over twenty years.

A qualified teacher, Amy founded and runs Alpha Inclusion and Communication, which works with neurodivergent young people and adults. Amy describes how her business, a social enterprise, develops individuals' essential skills.

Alpha supports professionals and parents; enabling them to improve communication and education for children and young people. It also acts in the workplace, helping people reach their potential by enabling teams, organisations and businesses to become more accessible for their clients and workforce.

Why and how did Amy get into this field? What made her set up Alpha Inclusion and Communication in 2012? And how can Lego support communication skills and language development?

Amy, author of three books including "Building Blocks for Communication - Activities for Promoting Language and Communication Skills in Children with Special Educational Needs," explains.

What next?

Alpha Inclusion and Communication
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Hi, I’m Heidi Fisher, the host of the Make an Impact Podcast. I'm an impact measurement expert, passionate about helping you make a bigger impact in the world by maximising the impact your services have.

I can help you to measure, manage and communicate the impact you have better to funders, investors, commissioners and other stakeholders, and to systemise your data collection and analysis so that it frees up time and doesn’t become an additional burden.

I love helping you to measure social and economic impacts, including Social Return on Investment or value for money assessments, as part of understanding the change you make to peoples’ lives.

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