Health and Wellbeing
Emotional Wellbeing for Children with Severe and Profound Intellectual/Learning Disabilities in Education
Support the emotional wellbeing of children who don't use words, through the body, the senses and relationships rather than talk.
- 53 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Look beyond happiness to safety, expression, hope, connection and agency
- Assess, plan, carry out and review a personal wellbeing plan
- Use breath, music, nature, touch and the senses to support regulation
- Recognise when a child needs help to regulate before they can learn
- Use video and team discussion to judge what's working for a child who doesn't speak
About this course
Talking therapies aren't much use to a child with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). And it's tempting to judge their wellbeing by one question: are they smiling? A child who cries with you for the first time, after months, may be doing better, because now they can show you how they feel.
Emotional wellbeing is broader than happiness. It includes feeling safe, comfort, hope, connection and some control over your own life. You'll get a simple cycle to assess, plan, do and review it for each child. Because emotions are physical, the ideas work through the body: long out-breaths with bubbles, music, nature, safe touch, a personal comfort kit. You'll also see why regulation has to come before any learning.
The approach comes from a learning disability nurse with a PhD in severe and profound intellectual disabilities.
- For early career teachers, governors and 6 other roles. All phases.
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- 12 min
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