How can you make client education more engaging for children?

Explain things in simple terms and allow opportunities for questions. Any questions, they may not have anything to do with what you’re discussing, but if it makes your child/patient feel more comfortable, it’s worthwhile.

Gamification of the learning process is another strategy to increase children's engagement with client education. By incorporating interactive games or activities, like puzzles, role-playing games, or quizzes, with instructional information, kids are more likely to remain engaged, motivated, and passionate about learning. This method not only makes learning interesting but also encourages children to actively participate and retain key knowledge in an entertaining way.

Certainly, visual aids are highly important for children, given their early familiarity with conceptual visualization. It is also crucial to use visual aids as an educational tool to facilitate long-term concept retention.

High quality visual aids with cognition and colour blindness requirements integrated are so important. Using low quality visual aids will actually distract and create worse outcomes than no visual aid at all.

The family will be impacted by the health of its members -- this is especially true with a chronic condition or handicap. When any one family member needs extra care and attention everyone is affected in some way. For parents it's important to understand that their child will mature and become more independent. Their role is to help this process happen (to the full extent possible) and not "do everything for" their child for the rest of their life.

This holds true based on my experience; fun and interactive content creates a lasting impression. In the realm of patient advocacy, where heavy discussions prevail, infusing an element of enjoyable content brightens the atmosp

This holds true based on my experience; fun and interactive content creates a lasting impression. In the realm of patient advocacy, where heavy discussions prevail, infusing an element of enjoyable content brightens the atmosphere.

Understand their social background to start with . Speak their language and connect what they already know to what you plan to educate.

One valuable approach I've discovered is engaging in preference dialogues to gain a comprehensive understanding of individualism when advocating for children. This allows us to unravel their natural characteristics and tendencies, with the key element being fostering a meaningful conversation using the term "dialogue."

Supporting learning means providing as many different modalities as possible. Consider videos, animations, diagrams, audio files, and low literacy/age appropriate written content. Every patient will resonate with a different method of education.

Accessible education principles for children are already well defined in primary and high school education. Look for examples of how teachers present information to their students and aim to do the same. Health is just another subject we all need to learn

Not all families have easy access to resources that meet current best practices or standards. Be adaptable. Suggest and encourage behaviors and practices that can be more easily adopted. Sometimes it will take smaller steps to get there.