Communication passport template

The passport can be handwritten.
Use different coloured paper, pens, pictures of the child, their friends and family, symbols or pictures of everyday objects.
Cut up old catalogues or buy a cheap picture dictionary.
You don’t need access to a computer to make a passport.
Handwritten passports are just as effective.

Communication passport template What is a communication passport.
It is a simple and practical guide to help people communicate with a non-verbal child.
It contains personal information about the child’s needs, such as:

The communication passport belongs to the person – not to staff or family, though they may help him or her to use it appropriately, and update it.
Passports are especially important at times of transition, when new people come into the person’s life and information may not be passed on.

Passports are useful for a very wide range of people.
It is not to do with age or medical diagnosis, it is primarily to do with communication difficulties, and life circumstances.
How effectively do we support children and young people with additional support needs to effectively communicate? .

Write the passport from the person’s point of view - make the dialogue chatty rather than professional

Draw together information from past and present and from different contexts so that it paints a holistic picture of the person

As time goes by things can change, so please update it when required

Communication passport template What is a communication passport? It is a simple and practical guide to help people communicate with a non-verbal child

It contains personal information about the child’s needs, such as their medical condition, likes and dislikes and so on

Communication passports help to empower individuals and they help to inform the reader of a person’s life and personality

Communication passports are very personal documents and they should reflect an individuals own style and preference