Building attention skills in children: THE BUCKET! 

Great Idea! Thank you for sharing! I have a soon to be six year who needs help with staying focused.

I am an autism parent, these tips are useful!

Thank you for sharing this information. This is my first year providing speech therapy services for preschoolers with very low attention spans and I've used a bucket similar to the one shown in your video...but I have to admit that often times, I let them they take control of the bucket. They start grabbing all of the items at once to play with right away. I will have to manage my bucket better and really focus on holding off on sharing the toys one at a time with the child to keep them engaged. I should simply show it to them and focus on keeping their focused attention. I also like how you emphasize that the objective of this activity - getting the child to learn that, although the object is fun, colorful and interesting that the adult who is "showing" them the object is also interesting. Great for preparing kiddos for mainstreaming into gen ed classes where the teacher leads and instructs the larger group because they will need to be able to focus on the teacher in that environment.

Amazing video, very verryy clear explanation! Thank you!

I really like this video!! I have used similar approaches to teaching my students. Mystery catches attention. Love this!

This only works for kids who are not too far on the spectrum. If they have severe ASD (or red flags for severe ASD), they will be too focused on wanting to hold the object and will have a meltdown if they can't have it. Otherwise, it's a good video.

I love this! And now I want to know even more about the bucket! And intensive interaction! There's so many directions to go from here - how exciting!

Thank you for sharing this information. Very easy to understand

As a children's librarian, I find these videos really useful for thinking about interacting with kids in storytimes. Thanks!

This was brilliant. Thank you!

This is really helpful, thank you!

Thank you. Just what i needed.

Absolutely brilliant video. Really helps to explain to parents

Great ideas. It'd be lovely to hear that enticing song you use at the start of the activity. Could you please share it? TIA

Thank you 🙏I really like your videos 👍

Thank you for this video 🥰

I will definitely be trying this with my children! Thank you for this video! 🥰❤️

I find this really helpful. Thank you! I wonder how I can apply this method in a online class setting.

How do we react to a child that starts to have a meltdown if we refuse to hand over the goods?

What if the child pulls the toys from us. How do we resist it ?

Hi. Where did you find your bucket?

Hi Bryony, Just rewatching this ahead of a home visit next week and my first bucket time! Is it best to keep the objects similar for stage 1 (ie all spinning) to minimise the words I use or can it be a mixture. The little girl uses one/two words currently. Would love your views. Thanks vicky

Do you have a handout of this technique that we can share with parents? thanks from a Speech Pathologist in Australia.

Yes more vids!

Hi Bryony..Can you please share some videos on reducing the hyperactiveness and autism .My child is almost 4 year old now still he has not learnt to speak.

Hey hi how do I teach my baby to communicate his needs? he is 3 year old

Can we have more videos about buckets please I need it for my Child

Hey Hun loving your informative videos, can you possibly share some link of where you get your toys pls?

My little one has his little collection of cars and it is hard for me to get his attention to do an activity if the only things that wants is to play with his cars 😥

Brilliant channel. Where do you get the Spider-Man toy? - A fellow SLP from Hong Kong.

Hi, Is your online course available to those in the US? Thanks

Hey can i have link to this bucket please

What age is this for? Is it ok for babies under 1?

Can you pls pls tell the names of the toys?

What do we do when the child doesn't like toys?

You say the child will learn that cool things happen when they keep their attention on the bucket, but cool things dont happen. Cool things come out the bucket, the kid doesnt get to play with them and then the cool things are quickly put away. From a childs point of view, what is the point of looking at a bucket of toys they aren't allowed to touch?????