An approach to
communication development -
A bridge to literacy
Louise Coigley MRCSLT MHPC MASLTIP
Speech and Language Therapist
Storyteller
Based in Sussex where I work with individual children and groups, I travel throughout the UK and abroad to deliver trainings and perform storytelling and poetry.
"Louise Coigley's dedication to her craft, her understanding and love of story and people result in a uniquely empathic, entertaining performer, workshop leader who uses stories as seamless healers.
She has a dynamic and infectious warmth. I would heartily recommend her to anyone seeking to bring storytelling alive in a profound and enlightening way.
To know her and her work over the years has been an inspiration''.
David D. Campbell,Storyteller, Poet, Writer and Broadcaster
I am registered with the Health Professionals Council,
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Lis'n Tell is featured in January 2011 Good House Keeping magazine (page 95)!
The evidence of how storytelling can support literacy skills abounds:
''Students are better able to move from oral to literate language styles if they have had positive experiences of hearing and retelling stories during pre-school years...''.
C. E. Westby 1991 - Learning to Talk and Talking to Learn
and for children with Speech Language and communication Needs (SLCN), storytelling can help literacy development at any age...Paray House School in London recently commissioned Lis'n Tell training for all teaching staff in order to promote and enhance their approach to literacy with their students...
Louise works across the UK and abroad...
''Engaging...stimulating
and refreshing...You are doing important work in the bringing together of art and science''.
Louise was in the top 5 Hit List of Childrens' Storytellers Shows at the International Edinburgh Fringe Arts Festival August 2009!:
Featured in ''My Working Life'' in July's Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist magazine: The Bulletin!
read here page 34:
Bulletin
: Live Inclusive Storytelling is a practical, imaginative and versatile approach to communication development.
Lis'n Tell evolved through my work with children and adults with special needs, with whom I lived for ten years.
I learnt how to tell a story and include, affirm and develop their responses. They taught me how to become more sensitive and inventive.
During this time I realised how storytelling can reach people with special needs, like no other medium can...
The principles and approach of Lis'n Tell can be applied to children and adults with a very wide variety of communication challenges. Please see the factsheet for more details or contact me....
Lis'n Tell works through rhythm and role, rhyme, repetition and ritual. It employs sensory and simple voice and gesture techniques which help the teller get to and convey the heart of the story to the hearts of the listeners.
This intensively inclusive method facilitates,involves and expands the verbal and non verbal responses of the listeners, who evolve as tellers in their own unique ways.
Louise Coigley MRCSLT MHPC
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Lis'n Tell: Live Inclusive Storytelling
