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August 7, 2020

A Playful Approach to Preparing Children for Returning to School During COVID 19

Entry 1 of a 3-week series by Eleanor Glennon Play to Prepare Schools across Ireland are preparing to open the doors in just a few short weeks. Teachers, SNA’s and other staff members in these schools are doing their best to figure out how they can provide the children of Ireland with an

Uncategorized anxiety,  back to school,  COVID support,  play therapy,  prepare for school,  special needs

Visual supports

August 5, 2020

Importance of Visual Supports

Do you use visual supports in the classroom or in your home?  Visual supports are an excellent learning tool to help students to understand auditory input through visual images. Often, when people think of visual supports the imagine picture-based supports. While this is a format we often

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video game online

July 28, 2020

Avoid Arguments while Getting your Child off Videos and Online Games

If you’re like me, with an adolescent or teen boy in the house, I’d say there’s a good chance you have similar battles over videos and online games. These COVID times have been tough, with activities cancelled and the isolation. So, online game play has been one of their only opportunities for

Uncategorized Behaviour support,  online games,  screens,  tantrums,  transitions,  video games,  videos

toilet training

June 10, 2020

Considering Readiness and Toilet Training in Autism

Toilet Training in Autism What are the prerequisites? Anyone who has done a bit of reading about toilet training, or discussed the same with a GP or other professional will likely be aware of the list of readiness signs. Most books or professionals will reference a set of readiness behaviours

Uncategorized ABA,  autism,  life skills,  toilet training

Insistence on same autism

November 6, 2019

Control, Rigidity, & Insistence on Same, Part 2

Insistence on same or behaviorual rigidity might include things like difficulty coping with changes in routines, things out of place, or in general things not being just the way they ‘need’ to be. The reality is that this is a very complex issue, but we hope to offer just a few insights here about

Uncategorized autism,  change,  control,  routines

October 15, 2019

Managing Transitions

Transitions are when children move from one activity to another. Whether a child is at home, out in the community or in school, there are multiple times when one activity ends and another one begins. Examples of everyday transitions are going from home to school, moving from playtime to lunch,

Uncategorized autism,  routines,  transitions

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Becoming involved in your child’s early intervention can feel intimidating and overwhelming. You may not feel like you have the skills needed to support your child’s needs and it is better to leave it to the therapist.

The fact of the matter is, your child will spend a lot more time with you, their parents, than they will with their therapist. If you picture all the hours in the week as individual marbles, there will be 168 marbles. The jar on the left has 1 marble, representing 1 hour of time spent with a therapist each week. The jar on the right has 167 hours representing all the other hours in the week.

At Reach, we want to empower parents to become involved in their child’s growth. Research shows that involving parents in our supports allows the parents we work with to support their children’s development and achieve more progress in areas such as communication skills and parent-child relationships.

We know this is a common anxiety amongst parents of children who are accessing supports, so we wrote a blog on this topic where we laid out the advantages of parental involvement, and our ethos around involving parents in supporting their children. You can find a link to our website where you can find this blog ion our website
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Becoming involved in your child’s early intervention can feel intimidating and overwhelming. You may not feel like you have the skills needed to support your child’s needs and it is better to leave it to the therapist.

The fact of the matter is, your child will spend a lot more time with you, their parents, than they will with their therapist. If you picture all the hours in the week as individual marbles, there will be 168 marbles. The jar on the left has 1 marble, representing 1 hour of time spent with a therapist each week. The jar on the right has 167 hours representing all the other hours in the week.

At Reach, we want to empower parents to become involved in their child’s growth. Research shows that involving parents in our supports allows the parents we work with to support their children’s development and achieve more progress in areas such as communication skills and parent-child relationships. 

We know this is a common anxiety amongst parents of children who are accessing supports, so we wrote a blog on this topic where we laid out the advantages of parental involvement, and our ethos around involving parents in supporting their children. You can find a link to our website where you can find this blog ion our website www.reachchildrens.com
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Are you working with your little one or a child you support in an early years setting, trying to encourage them to repeat sounds and words?

Did you know that before a child can imitate sounds and words they should focus on imitating actions.

⭐Start by imitating your child when they complete an action. This can be banging a drum, rolling a car, shaking a rattle.

⭐Try to move the activity to a turn taking activity. They shake - you copy -they shake - you copy etc.

⭐When they stop, you can then try to initiate the action. Shake the rattle yourself first and see do they then imitate you.

⭐Once you can get them to imitate this action after you, try to change the action and see if they will imitate that e.g. bang the rattle off the floor.

⭐Once they can imitate various actions you can then begin to add sound effects. Imitating sound effects will begin earlier than whole word approximations e.g. boom book boom while banging the rattle off the ground.

Once you have progressed through all these steps you can then begin to work on imitating whole words.

***Remember to keep the interactions fun! This should be done on the floor or wherever your child would typically engage with toys or similar materials. Don't try to do too much in one sitting. Think small achievable steps.

Set up for success and celebrate the small wins! 🏆

#repost #reachchildrens #reachchildrensservices #imitation #earlyintervention #imitateactions #BCBA #childled #followtheirlead #asd #specialeducation
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Are you working with your little one or a child you support in an early years setting, trying to encourage them to repeat sounds and words?

Did you know that before a child can imitate sounds and words they should focus on imitating actions. 

⭐Start by imitating your child when they complete an action. This can be banging a drum, rolling a car, shaking a rattle. 

⭐Try to move the activity to a turn taking activity. They shake - you copy -they shake - you copy etc. 

⭐When they stop, you can then try to initiate the action. Shake the rattle yourself first and see do they then imitate you. 

⭐Once you can get them to imitate this action after you, try to change the action and see if they will imitate that e.g. bang the rattle off the floor. 

⭐Once they can imitate various actions you can then begin to add sound effects. Imitating sound effects will begin earlier than whole word approximations e.g. boom book boom while banging the rattle off the ground. 

Once you have progressed through all these steps you can then begin to work on imitating whole words. 

***Remember to keep the interactions fun! This should be done on the floor or wherever your child would typically engage with toys or similar materials. Dont try to do too much in one sitting. Think small achievable steps. 

Set up for success and celebrate the small wins! 🏆

#repost #reachchildrens #reachchildrensservices #imitation #earlyintervention #imitateactions #BCBA #childled #followtheirlead #asd #specialeducation
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Delighted to be here at @rare_ireland Disability Information Day & Conference.

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Delighted to be here at @rare_ireland Disability Information Day & Conference. 

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Well done Reach Children's Services!

Great to see ye ❤

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