Thanks to an invite from Alexandra Strick, it was a pleasure to be part of a panel to raise the profile of children with additional needs and their access to books at a session for The Book Trust (December). As a group, we were able to highlight the range of needs including physical, learning, visual, speech and language. Afterwards we also dicussed and made recommendations regarding the accessibility aspects for a ChildsPlay book currently in development. It was particularly interesting to discuss some of the features and make some recommendations that could benefit both those with visual and other additional needs. It will be interesting to see how it turns out!

By Rebecca Bryant