Key adult
Key relationships can and do make a difference! A key adult can support children with attachment difficulties to develop trusting relationships and act as a safe base or an ‘Additional Attachment Figure’ in school. These adults can provide for opportunities for adaptation and recovery for children in the context of consistent, ‘good enough’ relationships.
Intensive Interaction
Intensive Interaction was originally developed by Melanie Nind along with Dave Hewett. It helps children and adults who are at the early stages of communication of developing social and
communication skills.
Growth mindset
A growth mindset is a term developed by Carol Dweck in her studies of human motivation. A growth mindset is defined as believing that your abilities and talents can be developed through dedication and hard work and that struggles help us to become better learners.
Executive Functioning
What is Executive Functioning? The term executive functioning describes a set of cognitive skills which help humans to regulate their behaviour, moderate their interactions with others, learn and generally ‘function’ during daily tasks.
Emotion Coaching
Emotion Coaching is an approach which enables children to manage their behaviour by supporting them to understand their different emotions. It is based on the principle that nurturing
and emotionally supportive relationships promote children’s outcomes and resilience.
The Establish, Maintain, Restore Method (EMR)
This is a framework is a way of breaking relationships down into manageable steps. It focuses on staff building effective relationships with pupils and divides relationships into three stages: The
Establish Stage, The Maintain Stage and The Restore Stage.
Collaborative learning approaches
What are collaborative learning approaches? Collaborative learning approaches are based on theories by Vygotski and Piaget which suggest that learning is naturally a social act.
Behaviour is communication
Child Psychologist Ross Greene states that, “kids do well when they can”, challenging the philosophy of, ‘kids do well if they want to’. He said that behaviour is due to delays in the development of crucial cognitive skills.
Support for CYP with Attention needs and/or ADHD
These are all supports that have been found to be of help with children with needs in the areas of attention, hyperactivity and impulsivity.
Attention Autism
Attention Autism is a learning approach developed by speech and language therapist Gina Davies to help children with autism develop attention and communication skills.
