SEND
Access to the Wider Community: Social Opportunities to Build Resilience
Find outings, activities and connections beyond the classroom that help learners with complex needs cope with stress, change and loss.
- 47 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Recognise signs of stress and overload in learners who don't use speech
- Plan sensory walks and accessible trips into the wider community
- Help a learner through the loss of a carer who has moved on
- Use music, movement and breathing to build emotional resilience
- Fit quick calming activities into your own routine
About this course
A learner who is overwhelmed can look calm. Their face goes still and they seem to relax, when really they've switched off. Reading signs like that is the first step. The second is giving them more ways to bounce back.
A lot of that happens in the wider community. You'll find ideas for relaxed and multi-sensory theatre, walks planned around a single sense, accessible nature trails and beaches, and music chosen to bring out a range of feelings, not only happy ones. There's practical help for when a favourite carer moves on, such as a sensory scrapbook to remember them by, and a breathing exercise that uses a strong smell like peppermint.
The presenter is a special school teacher and complementary therapist who lives with anxiety herself, and there's plenty here for your own wellbeing as well.
- For early career teachers, mental health leads and 3 other roles. All phases.
Recording
Open in order
- 1 min
Introduction
- 2 min
Things to Look Out For
- 4 min
Research
- 4 min
Messy Play
- 4 min
Relationships
- 1 min
Result of Lockdown
- 1 min
Change and Depression
- 8 min
Music
- 6 min
Exercise
- 2 min
Stress Hormones
- 3 min
Mindfulness
- 2 min
Quick Breathing Exercise
- 6 min
Nature
- 6 min
Senses
- 2 min
Story Massage