The programme was developed by the Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) in Tallaght and forms part of a menu of early intervention programmes developed by CDI to meet the specific needs of the children and families living in communities in Tallaght West. [...] The paper discusses the process undertaken by CDI to engage the community in identifying the service need, the Doodle Den curriculum and programme components. [...] This formed the next step of CDI’s work plan which identified a 10 year strategy and was again carried out in conjunction with the community through a process of consultation and meaningful engagement, and included: consultation with residents and professionals in the local area; consultation with parents and children; and an audit of services to identify existing levels of service provision (O’Ro. [...] Doodle Den Programme Defining literacy For the purposes of the Doodle Den programme, the formal definition of literacy adopted by the programme authors centred on the definition that was used by the Department of Education and Science (DES, 2005): Literacy is the integration of reading and writing, listening, speaking and mathematics for everyday life, for communication and learning to learn (p. [...] Parent component The parent is the primary force that propels the child into the world of discovery, the world of literacy, and the world of success’ (Gilliam, Gerla & Wright, 2004, p.226).
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