{"id":6767,"date":"2017-08-09T09:45:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T09:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/?p=6767"},"modified":"2017-08-09T09:45:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T09:45:41","slug":"work-with-children-and-young-people-top-10-tm-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/work-with-children-and-young-people-top-10-tm-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Work with children and young people? TOP 10 TM blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huge thanks to all the practitioners who have sent us guest blogs. We selected our 10 favourite guest blogs&#8230;in no particular order!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0<a title=\"Supporting children who stammer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/talking-mats-to-support-children-who-stammer\/\">Talking Mats to support children who stammer<\/a> Kirsten Taylor, Speech and Language Therapist tells\u00a0a moving story about how finding out what was upsetting a boy with a stammer helped to implement change.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Hearing the voice of the child\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/hearing-the-voice-of-the-child\/\">Hearing the voice of the child<\/a>\u00a0Emma Atkiss, Senior Educational Psychologist, shares her findings from the Wigan Pathfinder project reporting that using a Talking Mat helps to meet the 5 criteria of Shier&#8217;s model of participation.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Using Talking Mats for capacity assessments\" href=\"Talking%20Mats for Capacity Assessments with People with ASD\/LD\">Talking Mats for capacity assessments in people with ASD\/LD<\/a>\u00a0Ruth Spilman, Senior SLT from The Cambian Group, shares practical tips on assessing capacity.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Supporting pupil voice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/castle-hill-high-school-supports-pupil-voice\/\">Castle hill school supports pupil voice <\/a>Jenna McCammon, SLT and Rebecca Highton, SLT Assistant, tell\u00a03 inspiring stories using TMs in: selective mutism; safeguarding and motivational interviewing.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Supporting looked after children to have their say.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/supporting-looked-after-children\/\">Supporting Looked After Children to have their say<\/a>\u00a0Karen Wilson,\u00a0Principal Teacher\u00a0for children with additional support needs in a mainstream secondary school \u00a0shares her experience of using TMs to give young people a stronger voice in making decisions affecting them.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Hearing the voices of Looked After Children\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/hearing-voices-looked-children-young-people\/\">Hearing the voices of Looked After Children<\/a>\u00a0Rachel Clemow, Head Teacher and Donna Wood, Education Support Worker, report that Talking Mats has enabled children to express their thoughts and views in a safe, neutral environment.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Talking Mats and Mental Health\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/talking-mats-and-mental-health\/\">Talking Mats and Mental Health<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Carla Innes, Clinical Psychologist for learning disability from Healthy Young minds Stockport talks about the impact of TM training\u00a0on the whole team.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mummy I don't want to go to nursery today\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/mummy-i-dont-want-to-go-to-nursery-today\/\">Mummy I don&#8217;t want to go to nursery today<\/a>\u00a0read about\u00a0how using a Talking Mat might shed some light on why a 4 year old was upset at the thought of going to nursery.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How do you feel about starting school?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/how-do-you-feel-about-starting-school\/\">How do you feel about starting school?<\/a>\u00a0The story of 4 year old twins\u00a0and\u00a0their thoughts about starting school.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sibling attitudes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/sibling-attitudes\/\">Sibling Attitudes<\/a>\u00a0Prof Juan Bornman from Pretoria in South Africa\u00a0publishes a report on a study carried out with 27 typically developing children who have a younger sibling with a severe speech and language disability.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you have been inspired and are not yet trained\u00a0to use Talking Mats &#8211; come along to one of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingmats.com\/training\/foundation-training\/\">training courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge thanks to all the practitioners who have sent us guest blogs. 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