Storytelling, Special Needs and Disabilities: Practical Approaches for Children and Adults

Nicola Grove has a background in English teaching, speech and language therapy and university lecturing. She founded the charity Openstorytellers, and the Storysharing(R) approach, and is currently an independent consultant and researcher. She has published widely on augmentative and alternative communication, literature and storytelling for people with intellectual/learning disabilities, and has worked internationally with storytellers, educators and therapists. In 2020 she set up a website to collect the pandemic stories of people with learning disabilities. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and a member of the Open University Social History of Learning Disabilities Research Group