Activity 5.1 Transcript

Margje: I think when you share the photographs with the parents, it gives you a way of introducing different topics that may be quite difficult, or you may even miss normally. Or sometimes parents are a little bit hard to engage as well, but actually if you have the pictures you have an actual method of using those to speak to them, because they’re also quite interested in those pictures you made and then to talk about it. So you can get some information that you would maybe otherwise miss. 

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Sue: Some families are more interested in sharing the pictures. Obviously we’re working with many different types of families and some parents are less involved in the session than others. We always try and encourage our parents to be involved but sometimes we have parents that have another little sibling around in the room and they’re sometimes trying to keep that little one out the way and so they’re not as involved as maybe we would like them. We often try and do a lot of bringing them to the floor and it doesn’t matter if little Johnny’s alongside and we can work together sort of thing. But yeah families are different and they take different interests. 

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Margje: I think the first-person narrative is something I use as a reflective tool for myself. But it’s also something that triggers questions I would ask parents. Like oh I noticed this, or is that something he often does, or is that something you struggle with as well? I think in that way I do use it in communication with parents. 

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Sue: I’ve heard parents say that they’re going to try and sit back and observe their child in the first person, because they felt that that was a really useful tool for them as well. So that was a positive thing. Families are always happy to obviously have photographs of their own children and we have to get permission for that obviously. And they enjoy seeing their photographs, you know, children in their photographs if they’re achieving something. But doing it your way, In-the-Picture way is quite different isn’t it of objects and things. So I think they probably aren’t quite sure what that’s all about sometimes and sometimes I say there’s no agenda, it’s really just to sit and watch and see what happens.  

We also use as a service, our portage service here, we use photographs of objects quite a lot in terms of choosing. So we’ll offer photographs for children to learn to choose from a photograph which toy they want and that’s usually the next stage on from choosing from objects that we may show them, two objects together. So we use it that way. So they’re used to seeing objects that way but maybe not photographed objects after a playing session from the focus that the child has been playing with.

 

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