Yorkshire Coast Child and Family Therapy

07/12/2023

I saw this on LinkedIn - not sure who created it but yes and yes! This applies to all environments, and it is when does the child feel safe, not when does the adult think they have done enough to make the child safe.

29/10/2023

We share this every year. There is a child in both photos in the same position with a different colour coat on. Really important when choosing winter clothes.

Pic credit: Christian Thomas

27/10/2023

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20/10/2023

12/10/2023

Sometimes it's hard to know when to communicate with your child when they are very emotional or angry. We hope this graphic helps.

08/10/2023

04/10/2023

I tried to capture visually the difference that accommodations can make. When we go through our days, lots of niggly things that seem small can build up and mean that one more demand can result in overwhelm. With accommodations, things are still there in the background but supports are in place and so the same demand won't have the same impact.

This is highly simplified and of course on different days different factors can have more or less of an impact, but hopefully you find it useful.



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Image description: a 3 panel comic with a brown background. The heading reads ‘Accommodations make a difference’, below the heading text says ‘The ability to do a task can be impacted by many factors. On any given day, the combination that results in overload can be different.
Simple accommodations can increase someone's enjoyment of, or capacity and ability to do, a task.’ The first panel has a scale from 0-100 with different coloured boxes from green at the bottom to red at the top, the boxes in ascending order are: tight clothes, bright lights, multiple noise sources, hunger, strong perfume, didn’t sleep well, need a break, don’t understand task, high pain levels. The top box sits on top about to fill up the scale to 100 – the box says ‘someone asks a question.’ Above this text says: One more task demand or something unexpected could result in overwhelm/ meltdown for this person. Middle panel: a bulleted list says ‘What if the same person has: Taken a break, Had a snack recently, Can wear comfy clothes to work, Has been given clear task demands, Colleagues don't wear strong perfume, Can wear noise cancelling headphones’. Below this are some of the coloured boxes from the first panel all smaller with a spiky circle that says ‘these factors now have less impact.’ Third panel: text at the top says ‘With accommodations in place, the same demand, 'someone asking a question', doesn't have the same impact.’ This is the difference simple accommodations can make. There is the 0-100 scale but now only 3 boxes (bright lights, didn’t sleep well, high pain levels) are filled in, a yellow box (someone asks a question) fits on top and doesn’t cause overwhelm – this is the difference simple accommodations can make.

30/09/2023

There is so much more to behaviour than most people think. Children don’t try to upset us, there is usually something behind it. They are communicating their need through behaviour. If we look behind the behaviour we can see a child who is doing the best they can

28/09/2023

12/09/2023

A child's occupation is to study the world and to investigate and explore their occupations within the world. In their day-to-day lives, two different children may engage in extremely varied types of play - and there are many types of play!

What is important for adults to realize and to remember is that ALL play serves a purpose and that a given child on a given day may choose one play occupation over another.

Often, as OTs and among other professionals, we seek to guide a child to play in a certain manner. But is this in the child's best interest? Should we focus instead on following their lead and engaging with them in a relationship that supports their autonomy, regulation, and yes, even skill-building!?

What are your thoughts on this topic?

What do you see with kids and adults in the day-to-day?

What is YOUR favorite type of play?