VERVE - Why Video?
Why do we video ? – working through parent skill.
Working through the skills of parents supported by video has transformed what we now know about the development of well-being, behaviour, language, speech, communication and learning.
You may well have become concerned about your child’s development, perhaps because they appear to be delayed, have a ‘diagnosis’ or because they appear to present as ‘different’ in the way they are developing their communication and learning. You may think that you are not as ‘skilled’ as some other parents or that you should be doing something ‘different’ to other parents because of your child’s ‘difference’.
You will have been doing all the intuitive things that parents do, and are just as skilled as your peers. It is likely that your child has had to deal with more than many others during their development.
We work through your skills supported by video playback, because it is through you (parents or ‘key attachments’) that your child learns and continuous to learn most about how to communicate and learn.
The video allows us to:
a) see and share the detail of your child’s developing skills in terms of their :
Regulation -How they are organising, balancing and drawing together the many physical, cognitive and interactive skills that they are leaning to manage. See more on regulation.
Play – how they are experimenting and exploring through their actions, interactions, thoughts and ideas. See more on play.
Communicative intent - how they are using their bodies and/or vocalisations to interact and manage other peoples interactions e.g. to initiate, respond, request, direct, affirm, protest, negate, share interest, comment, label, question, repair etc, and how they continue or discontinue the interaction.
Understanding - what they are understanding through familiarity, routine, body language and gesture as well as words and word combinations in relation to their family and loved ones and in relation to requests made by others.
Use of voice/talking – how they are using their voice. Their melody and intonation, sounds they are using, onomatopia and words, phrases and word combinations. Their clarity, fluency and confidence in talking.
b) Show you what you are already doing moment by moment to artfully support your child in their development
c) Identify through freeze frame which elements in your interaction to exaggerate that support them specifically in organising their own developing skills as well as their confidence in their interactions with others.
d) Show week on week through video freeze frame the detail of their developing and emerging skills.
Here's a clip of parent, Elizabeth reflecting with Jo on her experience of VERVEing with her son.
Watch as she skillfully answers questions, while managing her son as he sets up a picnic in the living room!
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