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1. Sensory environment
Always consider the impact of the sensory input in the environment, on children's different sensory needs and their learning. Adapt the environment accordingly.
2. Adapt your language
Each individual has different expressive and receptive communication abilities. Adapting your language, will help children to understand.
3. Be consistent
Consistency in our approach is extremely important. Ensuring there is familiarity and predictability, can help children feel safe and confident.
4. Be organised
Ensuring you have all the needed resources organised in an easily accessible format, will mean the difference between an impactful or poor flowing, learning experience.
5. Emotional regulation
Teaching children to recognise their emotions and how to respond to different emotions, will have a positive impact on their regulation, wellbeing and behaviour.
6. Social interaction
Explicitly teaching and modelling play, conversation and social skills, can really help children form relationships and have meaningful interactions.
7. Be mindful of behaviour
There will often be a reason why a child is behaving in a certain way. If you can try to understand the reason behind their behaviour, anxiety or frustration, you will be in a better position to offer effective support.
8. Transition support
Support understanding of what is coming up next or throughout the day using meaningful transition supports. For example, this could be a visual timetable or a written list of events.
9. Visual structure
Providing visual structure to lessons and tasks will help children understand what is coming up, what is expected and when the activity will finish.
10. Always model
It will be much more effective to model or show a child how to do something, rather than just telling them, especially if they have communication needs.
11. Engaging learning
Children are much more likely to engage in learning that is motivating and of interest to them. Grab and sustain children's attention by ensuring highly motivating learning experiences.
