“It moved when you touched it.”
Stop first: Stop the added offer immediately for a known no/stop, discomfort, withdrawal of interest or uncertainty. Keep ordinary care and usual supports available; no repeated signal, clearer reply or restart is owed.
Setup and free swap: Begin only during existing comfortable play with the suitable familiar item, if actual contact and a change have already occurred. Do not place something into the child's hand or prompt a push. With no object, respond to an actual child sound and your own answer; this is communication, not an object-motion example.
Common agreement for every route
Use an awake, comfortable, wanted moment in the child's usual supported setting with a familiar caring adult. Keep the child's body and usual communication/supports as they are. Do not manufacture distress, withhold a comfort item or necessary help, reposition the child, guide their body, demand eye contact, lure reaching/tracking, test hearing, or ask for touch/speech/imitating to make the offer work.
An optional object is one existing large, intact, familiar, non-powered play item already judged appropriate for this individual child and setting under its actual instructions, age labelling, condition and current recall information. “Large” alone is no safety clearance. No object is required. No small loose pieces, detachable parts, food, water, tools, tight lids, bags, cords, magnets, batteries, foam, glass, raised ramps, lights, covering faces or surprise reveals are introduced. No child handling of paper; any print stays adult-held away from mouth/reach. Adults maintain normal supervision and unobstructed access. These offers certify no material or setup.
Use known home words, established signs/AAC and family-informed supports. A competent familiar speaker may use their own language; this pack supplies no translation, invented gesture dictionary, cultural story or First Nations language claim. The adult can speak, sign/communicate through established supports, act silently if accessible, or stay quietly available. Quiet does not remove usual communication access.
Stop rule: respond to a known no/stop, discomfort, withdrawal of interest or uncertainty by stopping the added offer and returning to ordinary familiar care/play. Never keep testing until a clearer answer appears. No new touch, sound or movement is used to obtain evidence. A restart needs current willingness. Necessary routine transitions remain adult responsibilities, with a familiar explanation; child participation is not required for tidying or ending care.
If this contribution is wanted
Offer and child control: Briefly describe the observed event once, or silently remain alongside if description is unwanted. The child can continue ordinary exploration, shift interest or stop; no repeat is owed. If a clearly known request is for your help, help promptly. Do not make another contact happen to obtain a second trial.
Three usable routes: (1) Continue the already safe object play without changing its setup; notice any actual contact and motion. (2) If a known request asks you to act, make the agreed small adult action and say who acted. (3) With no new object/sound wanted, remain available through usual communication; respond to what occurs without a physics demonstration.
Notice and next: Contact followed by movement is an event description; intention and understanding remain unknown unless supported. If no contact/change was seen, omit the causal sentence. Later follow that same interest only if currently welcome. Stop added commentary when it interferes with the play.
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