Sue: I think we’re very used to taking photographs of the child and their outcomes. So, if they’re successful with a toy they’re particularly playing with, and they’ve learned the little routine, and then we can celebrate that and do the photograph and show mum. That’s the normal way that we do things. So photographing the object, because you’re not quite sure what the outcome of doing that is going to be or what that’s about, I think that seems a little bit more tricky to understand, maybe, and to put that across how that really works is quite difficult.

 

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Sue: When I was observing this little boy the first time round, what he did was showed interest in some of the items, and there was a doll and a teddy, and he just threw them away on the floor and continued to line up all the other objects. And he said each name as he lined them up. So when I went back the second time I took the objects of interest at that first time of visiting, and he again did the same sort of thing, and actually put some things, a couple of things into little groups as well. And then interestingly he wanted me to take photographs of them, funnily enough, yeah, so we took photographs again. He liked the camera. He quite enjoyed having a photograph taken, this little boy. And I think he just liked to see the objects like that maybe and he enjoyed seeing them through the camera.

 

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Sue: There’s been a time fairly recently where I have taken a photograph of a little boy who likes jumping on the trampoline. It’s been quite hard to interact with this little lad. And he quite liked, when I took, I didn’t show him there on that day because it wasn’t appropriate for whatever reason, and I brought the picture back, printed it off and showed him a picture of himself jumping on the trampoline. And he quite enjoyed this and then got on, the trampoline was in the lounge and then he got on the trampoline and went and jumped. And so he quite enjoyed that. So I’ve used it that way.

 

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Sue: When I take photographs it’s an iPhone because we’re given that through work, so we’re lucky to use that. I think a bigger device would be distracting probably for the children, or quite a few of the children we work with. So sometimes you have to be quite discreet with it because some children are quite obsessed with the phone. So that is always a challenge. There are other children that don’t take any notice at all.

 

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