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DVD Resources for Practitioners
“Around 40,000 Australian children under five years have a parent with a learning difficulty or an intellectual disability. Research shows that parents with learning difficulties and intellectual disabilities are better able to learn new skills for effective parenting when service support and resources match their learning needs. The DVD uses best practice teaching strategies and video modelling which have been shown to support the acquisition of complex parenting skills.”
The Step-by-Step Baby Care DVD is a resource to support the specific needs of new parents who have learning difficulties. The DVD can be used as an interactive teaching aide and left with parents to use at home. Skills are broken down into step-by-step components, with repetition and prompts to direct the viewer’s attention to the most important parts of each skill.
The skills demonstrated are based on feedback from parents with learning difficulties who identified the skills they found the most difficult to learn. The DVD shows parents how to perform critical child care tasks related to nutrition and daily care for new babies, including:
-Making up a baby bottle using infant formula
-Washing your baby without a bath
-Giving your baby a bath.
To read more about why these skills were chosen, click here.
In line with best practice teaching strategies, the parents performing the skills in the DVD are real parents, and one of the parents has a learning difficulty.
Step–by-Step Baby Care is produced by the O’Connell Family Centre and the Parenting Research Centre. It was made with funding by the Jack Brockhoff Foundation, a charitable trust that supports community development, families and young people, health care, and the wellbeing and community integration of people with disabilities.
The cost to order a copy of this DVD is $25.50, which includes GST & postage within Australia. To order one or more copies, please complete the DVD order form (link below) and send a cheque or money order to the Parenting Research Centre, Level 5, 232 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, VIC AUSTRALIA 3002. For further information or to pay by EFT, email healthystart@parentingrc.org.au or phone (03) 8660 3500.
Strengthening Every Family DVD
A DVD, Strengthening Every Family, is available to order from the Parenting Research Centre. The DVD presents interviews with parents with learning difficulties who have asked to remain anonymous, so their faces are obscured. The parents in the DVD talk about a number of issues and give their views on significant topics about parenting including:
good things about being a parent,
challenges of being a parent,
how they best learn new skills, and
their experiences with services.
The purposes of the DVD are to:
Provide an opportunity to hear about parenting issues from the perspective of parents with
learning difficulties.
To highlight factors considered important by parents with learning difficulties regarding the support they need and how they best can learn.
To gain an understanding of the experience of parents with learning difficulties in the service system.
Copyright is held by the Parenting Research Centre and Office of the Public Advocate, 2003. The DVD may not be reproduced or copied. It is not available on video.
The cost to order a copy of this DVD is $12.75, which includes GST & postage within Australia. To order one or more copies, please complete the DVD order form (link below) and send a cheque or money order to the Parenting Research Centre, Level 5, 232 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, VIC AUSTRALIA 3002. For further information or to pay by EFT, email healthystart@parentingrc.org.au or phone (03) 8660 3500.
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