Routes for Learning: professionals’ implementation of the approach in supporting children with profound and multiple learning difficulties

This article is a summary of some of the findings of a doctoral thesis which aimed to investigate how the Routes for Learning (RfL) approach was implemented by professionals working with children and young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD). Given the dearth of published research regarding the implementation or effectiveness of RfL, this research began to address this by investigating how and why RfL materials were used in practice and how this related to the RfL guidance.