# T16 · An idea is not yet a try

“Keep it as an idea, or try 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:** A child has an actual expressed idea in current play, or chooses an adult seed while it remains explicitly adult-supplied. One safe ordinary item action may be proposed; no object version uses a story action. Do not require a plan before ordinary play.

## 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

**Play and choice:** Offer the status choice once. If the child wants to try, agree a suitable available action and operator; perform it only with current willingness. If it stays an idea, enjoy it without inventing results. A narrated pretend event is played fiction, not a material investigation.

**Three routes:** (1) Make the chosen small real act and notice only what actually happens. (2) Direct an agreeing adult and distinguish actual adult act from the child's proposal. (3) No object: tell/sign/communicate the fictional event or leave it untold; label imagination and enactment accurately.

**Notice/next/stop:** Did a proposal, real act, enacted story or no act occur? If no try, next planning starts with an available idea rather than an invented success. If an actual result differs from the idea, follow what the child wants next; do not correct them into another trial. Stop for changed willingness.

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