Our Demonstration Home is where a mother or father and child come on an appointment basis. This offers a homely situation built within the main centre at The Elizabeth Foundation where you come, on your own, and spend time with our Home Learning Team.

Here we will demonstrate with the child how language building games and activities can be incorporated into everyday household activities. These might be washing up, making the bed, preparing food, or cleaning. After demonstrating the activity we will help support you to conduct these activities with lots of talking, in a way that will best help and support your child.

This is not a formal ‘therapy’ room, and families can spend time in the Demonstration Home discussing issues, fears and worries about how they are to interact with their babies. Through years of both professional and personal experience, our staff can offer practical help on how to use activities in the home to develop listening awareness, language and beginning speech. We introduce you to resources available to you in your day-to-day life that can be utilized to form part of your child’s learning and provide any help and information we have to hand that may assist you.

For all our families, spending time in the Demonstration Home presents a unique and invaluable opportunity for certain activities in an informal environment where you and your baby will feel more relaxed. Even an hour in the Demonstration Home can make you aware of ways in which to encorporate learning opportunities into your day-to-day life. From here you will feel better armed and prepared to tackle the future and go on to take part in our nursery sessions if you live close enough, or in the Home Learning Programme where that help, guidance and support is extended through regular correspondence.

The Demonstration Home site is located in the main centre in Cosham, Hampshire and appointments can be made to come and have individual sessions.