ACTION REQUIRED: Teach Me Too is Moving
Teach Me Too is moving onto the Learn and Thrive website. In order to keep your access, you’ll need to follow these instructions. If you haven’t got a Teach Me Too account yet, click the ‘Create Free Account’ button. If you’re a pre-existing member, click ‘Sign In’ to create your member account on the new website.
Teach Me Too is brought to you as a free resource as part of a partnership between Learn and Thrive and 21 Together.
We rely on donations to keep producing new content and delivering expert support right into your home. Can you support us to build new free content?
What is Teach Me Too?
Teach Me Too is an online library of short educational videos and accompanying learning resources, all designed around the specific learning profile of children with Down’s syndrome.
Produced in partnership with:
Inclusively Down - specialist teachers focussing on key early learning concepts and skills.
Symbol UK - leading providers of training and syndrome specific speech and language therapy delivering ‘exploring language’ videos to support children in learning language for the Teach Me Too topic videos.
Key Communication - specialist speech and language therapist demonstrating activities to build early language skills through play.
Watching the videos together, or even without your child, can give ideas for games and strategies you can use in learning activities or when you are playing together with favourite toys and topics. For example, your child may prefer to buy zoo animals instead of fruit in the shopping game.
Our children learn through doing and having fun, so to get the most out of the videos, help them to do the activities by setting up toys and resources - there’s information alongside many videos. Sometimes children play and sign and say the words while they are watching a video, or they may watch the video and then do the activities at another time. Having fun playing with other people, and lots of practice helps our children to learn new skills. The best learning activities are the ones that become favourite games.
Why do we need it?
Children with Down’s syndrome have a specific learning profile, with their own strengths and weaknesses. Research shows that certain strategies are very effective for people with this profile, but many of our children are not benefiting from this knowledge as many services are limited by the families ability to pay.
Historically, early intervention and specialist teaching services supporting children with Down’s syndrome, were hard to find and overstretched. This has only been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic with children missing out on early years support. Teach Me Too cannot replace specialist intervention, but it can help to plug the gap by delivering key early cognitive and communication skills to a generation of children. The postcode lottery of services remains a real issue throughout the UK.
Originally inspired by the difficulties accessing resources for children with Down’s syndrome during the first lockdown, it quickly became apparent that this approach was not merely a stopgap during the Covid-19 pandemic, but allows us to explore other opportunities we could develop that would support all families.
Teach Me Too is dedicated to utilising innovation and technology to break down barriers to education and learning for children with Down's syndrome, regardless of wealth, background, or postcode.
How can you help?
Start your own FUNDRAISER, from sponsored silences to marathons (Covid-19 safe of course), anything is possible. You can raise funds online via this campaign page.
SHARE – Every person involved will make a real difference. Please share with your friends, family, networks and work colleagues. The more people that know about this project the quicker we can reach our target.
