Sue: So I’m going to be doing some more initial visits that I’ve been going with my boss on. And that will be useful I think when I’m meeting a child for the first time, to be able to sit back and just observe maybe for five minutes, or a bit less even, just to take that in and just sit back and watch and see how they behave around the room and interact with their parents. So I think that will be really good to be able to reflect on where the child is at and how they behave generally. 

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Margje: I think sometimes in supervision we will think about it and say, you know, from the eyes of the child, could you do it differently, would they understand better if you were to change this or that? Could you work with the parents to implement something that they would understand better or that they would have more interest in? We do use it like that as well. 

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Sue: I’ve been thinking maybe I could be a little bit more structured in how I use it possibly. I’m planning a little bit more for taking the photographs of something and showing them there and then at the time, and maybe I could actually do that with more children than I do actually. 

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Sue: I probably have used the observation of In-the-Picture once sitting back in a nursery and watching the child just move around the room and see what they’re doing. And I think that is actually quite a useful place to use observation. Sometimes it’s tricky because often we’ve either got the SENCO with us or sometimes staff want to talk, and so sitting back and observing I guess it’s for us to say I need just a few minutes just to sit back and observe. So it would be a useful way of using it. 

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Sue: I think I’m aware that some children find it quite difficult to interact directly. Obviously children with ASD, they often are in their own world sometimes. They’re obviously all very different. But to know how to interact and maybe find points of interest that we can draw on to work with them when we’re back in the home, sometimes really just sit back and watch and see what draws them, what they find interesting. And maybe I could use that on my one-to-one work at home when I’m on my home visits and obviously share that with families. 

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