Explain How To Support Children's Communication With Children And Young People

When you are working with groups of children, you may find it difficult to balance the needs of individuals with those of the group. This will be because often children seem to require different levels of attention. Some children may be able to work and organise themselves independently, where as others need the reassurance of an adult. You need to arrange the position of different children in the group, as well as your own, so that you are able to give this reassurance at all times, just be physical nearness. You encourage children to work and make decisions for themselves, they will not need as much adult support and will give more confidence. I have a checklist on giving attention to individual children. Such as: • Encourage all children to put forward their own ideas • Know the names of all the children • Acknowledge that some children will have strengths in a particular area and encourage this • Know the needs of all children, for example, any children with special educational needs …show more content…
Although spoken language will be appropriate for most children, in school we often need to use body language and gestures to get our point across. This is true in some situations when a teaching assistant needs to communicate with a child from the other side of the classroom, for example, through making eye contact with them and raise eyebrows to let them know they have been seen talking. In order to communicate with children we may find that in some case you will need to go for additional training- to support children who use British Sign Language or Braile, or if a child uses electronic methods of communication. We speak to the class teacher or the SENCO if we have concerns about a child around issues of communication. Even if speech is the most appropriate form of communication, some children may have speech and language difficulties and need additional