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The communities where children grow up can have a\u00a0significant impact on the well-being of both children and families. The Consulting Children and Young people pack contains the topic “My Wider World”. This topic allows exploration of the impact of both school and life out of school as well as the support systems available to them. The World Health Organisation reminds us of the importance of gathering environmental information from children. As a child develops the environments of their everyday life are closely connected to home and school and finding out how the child feels will give insight into their independence and activity.\u00a0Negative environmental factors often have a greater impact on children than on adults. In order to promote a child\u2019s well-being, effort needs to be given to enhancing a child\u2019s physical environment as well as their social or psychological environment.<\/p>\n

Daniel is an 11\u00a0year old boy with a diagnosis of Asperger\u2019s Syndrome. He completed a Talking Mat to explore the impact of his environment on his condition. He was asked to grade his responses using the top scale Happy (Things are going well) and Not happy (things are not going well).<\/p>\n

\"Daniel<\/a>
\nHe immediately commented about how he felt about school (\u201cyeah \u2013it\u2019s okay\u201d) He expressed a strongly negative reaction when asked about where he lived. He was very unhappy about the location of his house as it is in an extremely remote location and he can never have any friends round to play. He never gets visitors to his house apart from an uncle that may drop by. He feels bad that he doesn\u2019t have any neighbours and would love to live somewhere that has got other houses nearby. He has talked to his mum about it but she says, \u201cshe can\u2019t take me places \u2013 too much petrol\u201d He knows that his mum is worried about money. He also really dislikes “out of school care” as he is rarely allowed to play on the computer. He is happy with his teacher, support from health services and the emergency services.<\/p>\n

Daniel was clearly upset about his lack of social integration and contact with his wider community.
\nEnvironmental support included supporting the\u00a0care-givers in the \u201cout of school club\u201d by providing training and advice about\u00a0\u00a0Asperger\u2019s Syndrome.
\nSocial work became involved to help to help locate local youth groups and finance.<\/p>\n

Find out more about how to use Talking Mats by signing up for a training course at Talking Mats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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