Folktales Are Our Friends!

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Join us for this webinar about using folktales as a sensory story. Storyteller Ailie Finlay (founder of My Kind of Book) has been telling sensory folktales for nearly thirty years. Come and be infected by her enthusiasm!

We will discuss how to choose your tale, how to adapt it into a sensory story and how to tell it in an engaging way. Ailie will also talk about how one tale can be adapted in multiple ways to suit different themes, seasons, ages and interests.

Storyteller Ailie Finlay specialises in storytelling for people with additional needs. She runs sensory storytelling sessions and CPD workshops regularly in special schools and care settings and for the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Scottish Book Trust, NHS Lothian and the Festival Theatre. In 2020 she founded the not-for-profit organisation My Kind of Book. My Kind of Book researches and creates accessible books and stories for children with additional needs.

Accessibility

Please note that for this event you will have to provide your own additional support through access to work. If any of this applies to you, please get in touch by sending an email to sscworkshops@ed.ac.uk so we can facilitate access.

Target Audience

(Q)TVIs, Teachers in Special Schools, Classroom Assistants in Special Schools, Staff from Nurseries supporting children with complex needs.

Presenter

Ailie Findlay, My Kind of Book.

My Kind of Book are organising an Accessible Book and Story Festival in September 2024.