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Portage Top Tips to Support Your Child’s Development

Type of content: Resource

Portage Top Tips: Teaching Your Child Using the Portage ‘Small Steps’ Approach – general tips and introduction to the Portage ‘Small Steps’ approach. This guide will support you to use all NPA ‘Top Tips’ documents and understand how the breaking down of activities and using the Portage model can support your child to develop new skills.   

Case Study by a Portage Parent – Kingston upon Thames

Type of content: Case study

We are a family of four; Mum Zoe, Dad Shaun and twin girls Laura and Holly. Laura and Holly were born in 2011 and Holly has since been assessed as having Severe Global Developmental Delay.

Southwark Portage Worker - Case study two

Type of content: Case study

Child R was referred to KIDS following a recent diagnosis of Autism. He is 2 years old and lives at home with Mum, Dad and older sister L who suffers from a severe form of arthritis.

Case Study by a Portage Home Visitor from Westminster Portage Service - January 2014

Type of content: Case study

Kim was referred to KIDS by an outreach worker at 18 months of age. She had a diagnosis of hypotonia and had been seen by the Bobath Centre (for children with cerebral palsy) in London.

Case Study by a Portage Parent – Bromley

Type of content: Case study

There are four of us in our family home, mum, dad & two boys. We also have two older ‘children’ that I call my ‘step men’. All four brothers are very close although we do not often see the older boys as they have grown and are living independently.

Case Study by a Portage Parent – St Helen’s

Type of content: Case study

We are a family of four, myself Mum, dad Peter, Alex who is almost 7 and Toby who was born in 2012 and turned 2 years old a couple of months ago. Toby has Down syndrome. We live in a small village called Rainhill, in the St Helens Borough, just outside Liverpool.

Southwark Portage Worker - Case study one

Type of content: Case study

I have recently started visiting a little boy (X) who is 2 years and 8 months. He lives in a high rise 2 bedroom flat with his mother, father and 3 older brothers. The family have lived in the UK for a few years, and previously lived in Afghanistan.