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Playtime is essential for children’s wellbeing and provides key opportunities to make friends. Yet for some children, unstructured play can present real challenges.This beautifully illustrated guide is designed to be used alongside: Zedie & Zoola’s Playtime Cards – a pack of 25 cards containing ideas for fun playground games that draw from Zedie & Zoola’s Playful Universe and encourage children with different communication styles to play together. Zedie & Zoola Light Up the Night – a colourful storybook, which draws on themes relating to friendships, neurodiversity, participation, and advocacy. The cards and storybook explore the topic of communication differences through engaging characters and games. This accompanying guide offers additional advice for adults to use the cards effectively, with helpful contextual information to assist in making playtimes more accessible for children with communication conditions. This is an essential resource for parents, primary school teachers, and speech and language therapists, as well as anyone looking for new ways to foster an inclusive environment to help children aged 6-9 with different communication styles engage and play with their peers.

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Playtime is essential for children’s wellbeing and provides key opportunities to make friends. This pack contains 25 beautifully illustrated cards containing ideas for fun playground games that draw from Zedie & Zoola’s Playful Universe. They are designed to be used alongside: Zedie & Zoola Light Up the Night – a colourful storybook, which draws on themes relating to friendships, neurodiversity, participation, and advocacy. Zedie & Zoola’s Playful Universe – an evidence-based guide offering additional advice for adults to use the cards effectively, with helpful contextual information relating to child development, communication differences, and play, to assist in making playtimes more accessible. The cards and storybook explore the topic of communication differences through engaging characters and games, and the accompanying guide offers additional advice for adults to use the cards effectively, with helpful contextual information to assist in making playtimes more accessible. Zedie and Zoola’s Playtime Cards are suitable for use at both school and at home by children aged 6-9. They are an essential resource for anyone looking for new ways to foster an inclusive environment to help children with different communication styles engage and play with their peers.Intended for use in educational settings and/or therapy contexts under the supervision of an adult. This is not a toy.

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This beautifully illustrated, inclusive storybook helps children to understand that some people find talking difficult, and that we can help by listening and thinking of different ways to communicate.One day, the light in Zedie and Zoola’s lighthouse goes out, putting visiting boats in danger. They set off on an adventure to find enough glorms to bring light back to their village. On their adventure Zedie and Zoola see lots of exciting places and, with the help of new friends, they manage to find all the glorms they need. At the end of their trip, they have lots of new experiences to talk about.Zedie & Zoola Light Up the Night draws on themes relating to friendships, neurodiversity, participation, and advocacy and is designed to be used alongside: Zedie & Zoola’s Playtime Cards – a pack of 25 cards containing ideas for fun playground games that encourage children with different communication styles to play together. Zedie & Zoola’s Playful Universe – an evidence-based guide offering additional advice for adults to use the cards effectively, with helpful contextual information to assist in making playtimes more accessible. This is an essential resource for parents, primary school teachers, and speech and language therapists, as well as anyone looking for new ways to foster an inclusive environment to help children aged 6-9 with different communication styles engage and play with their peers.

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Playtime is essential for children's wellbeing and provides key opportunities to make friends. Yet for some children, unstructured play can present real challenges. This original resource provides ideas and tools to support children aged 6-9 with communication conditions as they socialise with their peers. The set includes: Zedie & Zoola's Playtime Cards a pack of 25 cards containing ideas for fun playground games that encourage children with different communication styles to play together. Zedie & Zoola Light Up the Night a beautifully illustrated storybook, which draws on themes relating to friendships, neurodiversity, participation, and advocacy. Zedie & Zoola's Playful Universe an evidence-based guide offering additional advice for adults to use the cards effectively, with helpful contextual information to assist in making playtimes more accessible. The

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