involving children in goal setting

A child centred approach

A holistic view of what the impact on the child is rather than a narrower impairment focussed view.

Empower the child to make their voice heard.

Allows the child to ‘own’ the therapy more.

So what sorts of things do we use to facilitate this?

Helping the child to reflect on their skills.

Helping the child to think about what skills they would like to practise.

Helping the child to see change.

Contributing to Annual Reviews.

Child-friendly IEPs.

Resources available to use.

Symbols programmes (e.g. Boardmaker or Communicate in Print by Widget)

Talking Mats framework. Other.....