Course | Help My Social Relationships

Price
£59

The price listed is for this course, Autism and Neurodiversity, only. An additional pricing option is available as part of Autism for Teachers from £35/month.

For further information, please visit Autism Spectrum Teacher website.

Facilitator

Steph Reed
Over the past 12 years, Steph has taught many autistic children and young people, with a wide variety of abilities and complex needs.

In recent years, Steph has upskilled hundreds of adults including parents, teachers, SENCO’s and support assistants with practical skills and knowledge to meet autistic children’s needs and support their learning.

Steph is an Autism Specialist Teacher and Consultant, supporting schools and services to ensure high quality autism provision and practice, enabling children to achieve and maximise their outcomes.

Description

Online, 90 minutes.

How to support the development of attention, social interaction and play skills, to help children form relationships.

Are you looking for ways to help children's play and social interactions? Do you want to help them develop their social awareness?

For some children, it can be difficult navigating day to day interactions. From new environments with strangers, to being with familiar friends and teachers at school, these interactions and social expectations can be a challenge. To help children form and sustain relationships, it is important to support their development of play and social interaction. It can be important to help a child understand the social world around them, including those often tricky ‘social norms’ and non-verbal cues that don’t just come ‘naturally’. With these practical strategies and helpful ‘tools’ at hand, you can build ways to make social experiences fun and beneficial for children.

This short course breaks down the learning of turn-taking, play and social skills to help teach children these valuable skills that will support them to form meaningful relationships.

How Will This Course Benefit Me?

1. Learn practical strategies to develop early play and social interaction skills.
Gain a 'tool box' of things you can do to enhance children's play, turn taking, and interaction.

2. How to support the understanding of social 'norms' and non verbal cues.
Practical tips and downloadable resources to support children's learning of those tricky social 'rules'.

3. Have a broad understanding of how to nurture the relationships of a child with special educational needs.
Feel confident in utilising a range of practical skills, strategies and resources to enhance interaction and relationships.

Course Videos

- Introduction
- Downloadable resources (including slides, reflection task, visual supports, helpful stories & recommended reading)
- Social interaction skills
- Masking (and why it is important that we understand it)
- The importance of being a role model
- "He hit me!" Social interaction and communication difficulties
- How to support turn taking
- How to support the development of play skills
- Let's talk about eye contact
- How to support understanding of non-verbal cues
- How to support understanding of social 'norms'
- How to support conversation
- Forming and sustaining relationships
- Learning and feedback