Interviewing Young Children and Children with Communication Impairments
This two day course has been developed to enable experienced interviewers to extend their skills to work with young children and children with communication impairments. Suitable for police officers, social workers, intermediaries and advocates who have a working knowledge of Achieving Best Evidence guidance.
Comments from previous attendees
- "Wow, this course should be provided to all professionals involved in interviewing children."
- "The course was tremendously useful. I really need the rest of my team to attend."
- "A practical, informative course... excellent, wish I had done it years ago!"
- "Really thought provoking course; made me think about my interviews in a completely different way and I will use all I have learnt in future interviews."
Course Aims
To develop skills for communicating directly with young children (aged 2-6) and children with communication impairments.
Objectives
Learn and practice a range of skills for:
- Establishing direct communication with a child
- Adapting your communication to a child's individual needs
- Interpreting and using formal assessments of children's communication
- Working with children in the presence of other adults including setting up
- Clear agreements with interpreters, intermediaries and other communication supporters
- Using a range of resources to ‘scaffold’ children’s communication
- Observing and recording children’s non-verbal communication
- Using non-directive and non-leading approaches to clarify children’s accounts
Course Requirements
A working knowledge of Achieving Best Evidence guidance.
Trainers
Ruth co-directs Triangle and works directly with children and young people in Triangle's Consultative Groups and on a range of other projects, particularly where there are concerns about a child. A lot of Ruth's work is with children who do not use speech or have very limited language, and she has taught and published widely on these issues. Ruth is also a Registered Intermediary with the Ministry of Justice, providing communication support to children in their communication with the police and the courts.
Price
180 GBP + VAT inclusive of lunch, refreshments and all course material.
Dates
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