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When you have found a number of ways to access your child’s attention for a few seconds, use these to associate them with another activity, in order to prolong the moment. What you are doing is using something your child finds highly pleasant (for example tickling) and making him associate that with something he probably wouldn’t respond to originally – for example, any one of the following:

singing a commentary

saying a commentary to a drum beat

using a special hand action rhyme

stroking faces and labelling eyes, nose, etc…

playing ‘Horsey Horsey’ – try a more sedate style than rough-and-tumble, the focus being on the song.

The case below illustrates how this might be done.