In Part 2 of this episode, Dr Brad Marshall and Meg Tidyman reflect on the changing role of play and technology:
- Notice where children may need support with social communication
- Learn how to make space for flexible, unstructured play
- Understand ways to encourage turn-taking, negotiation and conversation repair
- Use children’s interests to invite new kinds of play
- How online interaction can lead to real-world connection
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Host: Dr Brad Marshall, Psychologist; Author; Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University
Expert: Meggen Tidyman, Paediatric Speech Pathologist and Owner, Eat Talk Play, NSW
Total time: 42 mins
Additional resources:
- What screens are replacing: A conversation about young children’s development – Part 1
- Eat, Talk, Play
- Waffle – A screen free phone
- The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt
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