Description: The Person-Based Approach (PBA) describes iterative methods for planning, optimising, evaluating and implementing behavioural health interventions.
‘I am’ Digital Stories is an inclusive, strengths-based method for enabling the voices of children and young people, especially those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), to be shared within their transitions. This method uses digital filmmaking processes to create a short (3-5 minute) video with the child or young person so that they can contribute their perspectives to transition planning.
This approach uses a strengths-based framework to guide children, and those who support them, through the process of creating their own story, and helping them to present their ‘best self’ to other people so that they have autonomy over what information is shared.
Our approach to creating an ‘I am’ Digital Story was co-created with educational and related professionals, and autistic children and young people through in-depth, qualitative research. We wanted to challenge the deficit-focused narratives that often follow children through school and fail to include their different ways of knowing and communicating about the world.