Sue: I think I just make the decisions of whether I show the photograph at the time to the child, depending on whether they’re getting too tired and they’ve disengaged or whether they’re still wanting to do more. Sometimes I guess I would tend to leave it to the end of a session, because probably all that would take up the time I’m there anyway. So I guess I just make the decision there and then at the time really, depending on how I feel the child is going to react to that. 

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Sue: I think I do vary it depending on the child and maybe how I want the session to go. Sometimes I think I know I’m going to do that before I arrive with the visit because I would obviously have it in my head that I want to try that out, how that might go.  

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Sue: I think when I am taking a photograph of an object of interest, I am interested in seeing how the child reacts to that, whether they recognise it; in fact, it’s just reminded me recently of a little boy. It was a photograph I had of some animals, farm animals. Real photos actually, they weren’t of the object of interest. But what happened was he went and picked up the picture of the horse and wasn’t interested in any of the others and went on the trampoline and started jumping with the picture. And then I laid out some animals and the horses resembled the picture of the horse, the photograph. And he came off the trampoline and picked up the horse out of the other animals and took it onto the trampoline and starting jumping. So that was quite interesting, because when I was able to chat to mum about that, she said oh she had felt, she had noticed that he had maybe a slight interest in horses. And then the outcome of that was actually that mum wanted to give him a horse-riding lesson or something. They had a friend and they could access taking him for a ride on a horse, which was quite nice.

 

And the other situation that arose from that was I went into a setting, a nursery setting, and he’s very obsessed with the screen and some programme that the setting put on the screen. And that got turned off and then he went over to an area in the room and brought me back a horse, a small toy horse. And so that was quite nice because then I shared that with the nursery staff that he seemed to like horses and was drawn to this. And then he actually got another animal as well and laid down by both of them and put his head on them and I thought that was really sweet, yeah. But it was useful, it was nice because I saw how he reacted to the photograph and the animal and then obviously was able to see how much he enjoyed horses maybe.

 

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