While we all miss our face to face groups, having story sacks online meant parents and families got the opportunity to have children involved in creation of their story sacks projects, further building on strengthening the relationship between parents and children. Story Sacks ran online …
The Hug Your Book© Programme is a family literacy evidence-based programme for parents developed by Lána McCarthy (lana@youngballymun.org) for Youngballymun. It can be delivered by Adult Literacy Tutors, Speech and Language Therapists, Home School Community Liaison Teachers, Early Years Practitioners, basically anyone with an understanding …
The Irish Research Council is currently funding Lána McCarthy through their Employment Based Programme in partnership with Trinity College, Dublin and Youngballymun to complete a four-year PhD study. The research is an exploration into the multiple perspectives of parents and practitioners on parental engagement strategies …
The Oral Language Forum was held online on Tuesday the 9th of November. Over twenty practitioners from HSE Speech and language Therapy Departments, school principals and Home School Community liaison Teachers, Early Years Practitioners, Adult Literacy educators and Members of the ABC consortium attended. For this forum, Aoife O’Shea and Pauline Frizelle presented …
