TITLE: Lauri Triulz - Being in the Same Space


LAURI TRIULZI:
Everyone communicates using non symbolic communication.
So we cry we make faces
we might use our body and that's
a beginning, that's an emerging kind of communication
and as a team who supporting this child to develop communication skills
what we wanna do is share experiences
with the child from their perspective
we're gonna try to understand what does that activity feel like?
What does that act what kinds, um
movements do I make while I'm involved in that activity?
So by being very focused and very cognisant of
what the child's experience of an activity
is, then when that child
is communicating about that activity through expressions or
gestures or bodily movement or sound
we're able to understand
what that child is trying to communicate so we're interpreting
again a non symbolic communication but we're
gonna then respond to the child and acknowledge
that we, we hear what they're saying we get what you're sayin
and I was there toO with you, yes and I remember yes, how that felt and
how much fun that was or how scary that was or whatever the child is trying to
communicate.
But if we're not in the same space with the child sharing that
activity or sharing that interaction or sharing whatever is happening
we're not really gonna be able to interpret
those gestures, those expressions, those
bodily movements, that the child is giving us
as a way of sharing their thoughts, their feelings and information with us.