Early Years SENCo Space
Early Years Top Tips
Top Tips for Early Years SENCos and practitioners from the Early Years and Childcare Team.
Communication and Interaction Top Tips
- Useful Tips - SHREC Approach
- Useful Tips - Gaining a Child's Attention
- Useful Tips - Intensive Interaction
- Useful Tips - Listen with Lucy
- Useful Tips - Makaton
- Useful Tips - Musical Interaction Songs
- Useful Tips - Objects of reference
- Useful Tips - Reasons to Communicate
- Useful Tips - Sensory Audit
- Useful Tips - Sensory Processing
- Useful Tips - Sensory Profile
- Useful Tips - Social Stories linked to Communication and Interaction
- Useful Tips - Song Bags
- Useful Tips - Story-time
- Useful Tips - Supporting Childrens Play
- Useful Tips - Shared attention activities
- Useful Tips - Chunking
- Useful Tips - Copy boxes
- Useful Tips - Requesting - Creating opportunities to communicate
- Useful Tips - Supporting communication through requesting
- Useful Tips - Asking for help (strategies to support children’s communication)
- Useful Tips - Using stages of visuals
- Useful Tips - Visual timelines and timetables
- Useful Tips - Visuals to support Communication & Language Development
- Useful Tips - Visuals Supporting routines and transitions-First and Then Boards
- Useful Tips - Visuals to support independent decision making
Cognition and Learning Top Tips
- Useful Tips - Circle times
- Useful Tips - Create a book area
- Useful Tips - Create a sensory area
- Useful Tips - Fine motor skills
- Useful Tips - Invitations to play and provacations
- Useful Tips - Methods of observation
- Useful Tips - Sensory play
- Useful Tips - Snack time
- Useful Tips - Circle games
- Useful Tips - Supporting cause and effect play
- Useful Tips - Backward chaining
- Useful Tips - Using work reward 2-Activity basket ideas
- Useful Tips - Using Work Reward 1 (structured teaching approach)
Social Emotional and Mental Health Top Tips
- Useful Tips - ABC Chart Final
- Useful Tips - Calm down spaces
- Useful Tips - Reward charts, coupons and boxes
- Useful Tips - Self regulation 1
- Useful Tips - Self regulation 2
- Useful Tips - Sheet-Visuals to support behaviour management
- Useful Tips - Turn taking games
- Useful Tips - Using Puppets
- Useful Tips - Using Reward jars
- Useful Tips - Using Reward jars
- Useful Tips - Developing children’s emotional awareness and understanding 1
- Useful Tips - Developing children’s emotional awareness and understanding 2
- Useful Tips - Ideas for promoting positive behaviour within the setting and at home 1
- Useful Tips - Ideas for promoting positive behaviours within the setting and at home 2
- Useful Tips - Supporting emotional awareness through stories 1
- Useful Tips - Supporting emotional awareness through stories 2
Sensory and/or Physical Top Tips
General Top Tips
- Useful Tips - How to support and manage children who eat inedible items (PICA)1
- Useful Tips - How to support and manage children who eat inedible items (PICA) 2
- Useful Tips - Fussy Eaters 1
- Useful Tips - Fussy Eaters 2
- Useful Tips - Home-based learning
- Useful Tips - Sleep Difficulties
- Useful Tips - Toilet training
- Useful Tips - Individual Risk Assessment
- Useful Tips - Keeping safe
- Useful Tips - One Page Profiles
- Useful Tips - Supporting children to accept changes in routines 1
- Useful Tips - Supporting children to accept changes in routines 2
- Useful Tips - Supporting children to accept changes in routines 3