Getting off to a flying start
Author: Esther Black
Magazine issue: Winter 08
Page numbers: 4-6
Date: 30 November 2008
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As a newly qualified ‘Flying Start’ speech and language therapist Esther Black was looking forward to collaborative working in an environmentally deprived area, but in the event found service delivery in nurseries frustrating. She joined a departmental working party convened to address this issue across Fife. Participants considered literature on effective training, a ‘best nursery ever’ activity and a domainal map to judge the feasibility of change. Esther describes how she worked with a senior colleague, a head teacher and an educational psychologist to take forward the working party findings in one nursery, and the impact this had on staff’s communication with the children. She also reflects on how her own skills and confidence have developed and outlines her plans for the future.
