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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 ... See MoreSee Less

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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! 🏆

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

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