Samantha Cotterill
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252 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2019
last heard Dec 2019
Samantha Cotterill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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what the child isn't doing correctly.
Like in terms of if there's a situation where a learning situation can happen, it can be kind of easy to get into a default of going, you can't do that, or this isn't the right way to do that, or you can't do that.
And it creates a situation where a child is only told what they're doing wrong and not necessarily clued in on what they've done right.
And in these books, especially with Can I Play Too, when the teacher is responding to
situation between the child and the friend, she first points out what the child did brilliantly as a positive reinforcement before introducing some subjects where he could improve on or something that he could, a tool he could use to maybe help understand the situation better.
Just that idea of using a little positive of, okay,
this, you've done this great, or this was so well done.
And I'm so proud of you.
You asked him to play and that's great.
And then, okay, here's some things that maybe we can, I can help you with.
But that was important for me to instill in the books as well, to give kids a sense of self-confidence into going into situations like that, where they may feel like a lot of times they just hear the things that they've done wrong.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Well, I was diagnosed initially when I was 19 with just quote unquote mild autism.
And it stemmed from just a childhood growing up where I really quite honestly was the bullied child.
I was teased a lot and bullied a lot to the point where my mom had even questioned moving schools or changing schools when I was in sixth grade.
I was always much younger, much younger than my peers in terms of I played with
Barbies until I was 16.
I was quite obsessed with Barbies and my big teddy bear.
He was my little sidekick that I really was fond of until high school.
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