Webinar | Recognizing and Supporting Children With Anxiety in Early Years

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Provider: The National College

Elementary school Webinar | Recognizing and Supporting Children With Anxiety in Early Years

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£72. This price includes £12 VAT.

Facilitator

Catrina Lowri is a qualified special needs teacher and experienced SENCO. She recently launched her website ‘Neuroteachers,’ which offers a library of short ‘how to’ and explanation videos for educators. Catrina also writes and delivers online training and events for multi-academy trusts, businesses, schools, and training organizations.
Her passion for inclusion has led her to train as a specialist lead trainer for the Positive Regard Programme. This offers schools a relational methodology to help reduce behaviors of concern. She will shortly be offering this training to settings in the South of England and Wales.

Catrina recently worked on an Impact Project with staff from the Autism Centre for Education and Research at the University of Birmingham, creating online resources aimed at school leaders to help prevent exclusion for autistic learners. She has become a distance learning trainer on the Master’s In Autism course at the University of Birmingham due to her work with anxious non-attenders.

Catrina is an Autism Education Trust Lead Trainer in North Somerset. She runs the ASK (Autism and Social Communication) project, employing four autistic trainers. She has had several articles published in the Good Autism Practice (GAP) journal and has collaborated on award-winning training. Catrina qualified with a secondary PGCE in German and history some 22 years ago and initially worked as a modern languages teacher and then as head of German. In 2014, she completed a Master’s in Autism.

Catrina is neurodivergent herself, having a dual diagnosis of dyslexia and bipolar disorder. She talks openly about her experiences as an ND teacher and offers support to other educators with similar needs to her own. She believes that being taught by an ND teacher can offer learners a role model who has had similar experiences to their own. It also offers parents hope that their ND children can succeed and reach their full potential.

In this webinar, Catrina Lowri, an experienced special needs teacher, and SENDCo, explores what anxiety actually is, what responses it triggers in the brain and the body, and why these reactions can vary – along with discussing how to formulate an effective, supportive plan for your setting.

Description

Webinar duration: 43 minutes (approximately).

This webinar will provide nursery managers, practitioners, early years teachers, and early years support staff with a more detailed understanding of how anxiety can manifest in the very young – and how, without adequate support, it can severely impact learning and development.

Figures from the Local Government Association’s ‘Bright Futures’ campaign clearly indicate that number of referrals to children’s mental health services is rising sharply year on year. Understanding how anxiety can present during the early years stage – and the kinds of effects it can have on its sufferers – provides an opportunity for those who teach and interact with young children to respond in effective ways that support the child in need.

Learning Outcomes

Outcome 1:
Defining how we categorize anxiety, fear, and stress – and appreciating how they can affect early years children in the moment and in developmental terms.

Outcome 2:
Identifying the physical symptoms of anxiety and how this impacts a young child’s ability to regulate.

Outcome 3:
Recognizing some of the ways that anxiety and stress vary between individuals – both in presentation and severity – and common reasons for these differences.

Outcome 4:
Understanding how to support co-regulation in an early years setting to improve outcomes for young people who are exhibiting signs of anxiety.

Outcome 5:
Knowing how to make a child-centred plan to prevent and respond to anxiety both effectively and supportively in an early years setting.