Updated EASEYS!

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Over the last few months we have been reviewing the EASEYS for ASN linking them to Realising the Ambition and this years INSET training materials to reflect current thinking and key messages in Early Years.

8 EASEYS have now been updated so if you have previously downloaded these documents please check for the new version. These are the updated ones dated either March or April 2020 in the footer:

  • Communication with Home
  • Feelings in Me, Feelings in You
  • Gathering the Young Child’s Views
  • Intensive Interaction
  • Meeting Additional Support Needs
  • Towards Self-Regulation
  • Quiet Time
  • Supporting Learning at Home for Early Years ASN

Supporting learning at home for early years ASN

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To help support learning at home for families of children with additional support needs, while their Early Learning and Childcare settings are closed, we have pulled together some ideas, activities and useful weblinks.

Not all of these may be relevant to you or your child but we hope you will find something helpful or something they like to support you through the days and weeks ahead.

Pre-school Home Visiting Teachers (PSHVT)

Please note that all PSHVTs are currently working from home, term-time. We are all contactable, as usual, by email or mobile phone (we are not able to access office phones and messages) and available for consultation. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

This Blog contains a selection of materials from the Highland Council Psychological Service. The PSHVT sections are targeted at Early Years: Additional Support Needs topics (EASEYS for ASN), Play Ideas and  links to other good practice in ASN. Please explore the tabs above and ‘follow’ to get updates and new materials as they are published.

PSHVTs are contributing ideas to the Daily Tips being published on the Bumps2Bairns Blog. Please ‘follow’ Bumps2Bairns.  

Gathering the young child’s views

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More and more we are being encouraged to gather the views of young children with Additional Support Needs around their likes and dislikes, emotions and feelings, friendships and things that matter to them.

This document includes some tools and strategies which might help to ensure that we are gathering the child’s views and giving them a voice not only during the Highland Practice Model Process but thinking beyond the Child’s Plan.

See the EASEYS for ASN Gathering the young child’s views for a selection of ideas. Ensure to match the strategy you choose to the child’s strengths, interests and communication level.