Home Consultations

What happens in a PLAY Home Consultation?

An experienced Home Consultant will visit the child's home regularly to coach parents, siblings and other family members how to play, communicate and interact with the child. A home visit takes about 2 hours and includes observation, discussion, strategies and modelling of interactive play and effective communication. I aim to video about 15 minutes of the session to help us to observe and notice what is going on. The subsequent Review Meeting is an integral part of the programme as it provides parents and Home Consultant with the opportunity to reflect together on the meaning of the child's problems, to understand the complexity of the situation and to think about how to reduce disturbances and work towards developmental progress.

How long does it take?

Parents always report immediate changes in their child and for themselves after the first Home Consultation and Review meetings. But just as a house is not built in a day and a plant needs time to grow fruit, mental development takes time, patience and commitment. To see real progress therefore requires a commitment from parents and home consultant to work together with the child for usually at least one year. All families I have worked with report solid progress in their child and the whole family after 1-3 years of working together.

What is MindBuilders' approach?

MindBuilders uses a developmental approach based on the DIR Floortime and The PLAY Project models as well as other developmental techniques, e.g. Waldon activities, to create a programme that is tailored

	to fit your child's and family's unique individual needs
	to contain and reduce feelings of confusion in child and family
	to prevent disturbances and mental deterioration from getting worse

Programme Structure:

A.	Assessment of child and family situation and containment of confusion
B.	Creating a strategy towards progress and to prevent expansion of disturbances
C.	Implementing strategy to reverse the situation of developmental delay and disturbance

Your Home Consultant will show you …

1.	How to PLAY and COMMUNICATE with your child in ways that are fun, so he will want more
2.	How SPEECH develops through using gestural, non-verbal and verbal LANGUAGE
3.	How to use DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES to address and fill the gaps in his understanding
4.	How your HOME ENVIRONMENT can be used to encourage your child's mental development
5.	How to practically address BEHAVIOUR ISSUES as a form of emotional communication

Problems we'll help you with:

	Delayed speech and language development, - in preparation for more formal speech therapy
	Developmental delay and how to help your child to catch up
	Not knowing how to interact or how to play with your child
	Feeling confused and without a sense of direction
	Learning problems at home and at school
	Eating issues and difficulties
	Toilet training and self help skills
	Sleeping and bedtime troubles
	Difficult behaviour and how to set limits
	Fears, phobias, obsessions, controlling behaviours
	Tantrums, aggression, passivity, negativity
	Sibling rivalry and family relationships
	Puzzling behaviours or developmental issues
	Where to find appropriate help and support

What we offer:

	Dedicated individualised support from a skilled experienced Home Consultant
	Parenting and family support, coaching siblings
	Helping parents to understand the meaning of their child's problems
	Helping the child to develop his learning capacities
	Sensory, movement and developmental activities, including the Waldon approach
	Play techniques, strategies, activities, materials
	Behaviour management advice
	Toilet training support
	Coaching, modelling, counselling
	Supporting fathers in understanding their crucial role in helping their child
	Holistic therapeutic support and strategies for positive play, behaviour and emotions
	Practical advice on optimum use of home environment, e.g. suitable chairs, play materials
	Giving the family a sense of direction to see the child from a different perspective
	Managing stress and difficult feelings, e.g. diagnosis, behaviours, school, the future, …
	Progress reports, evaluation and continuous assessment
	Ongoing support and advice by phone, email, text or post
	Assistance with IEP-goals

How much does it cost?

FREE       Initial Phone call (30 minutes). Text or phone us on 07726 726 729
£75        Hourly Rate, - some concessionary places available, but there is a waiting list
£165       Initial Home Consultation (2-3 hours, includes travel in London), or Part 1 of Assessment Package
£555      Assessment Package Part 2 ( in all 3 Home Consultations + Review Meetings)
£180      Average cost/month for a 1 year Home Consultation Programme (30 hours of Home Consultations +
              Review Meetings)

Contact us for further details on 07726 726 729 or
info@mindbuilders-consulting.org

Sibylle Janert, PLAY Home Consultant