EwingPlease join us on 4th March 2026 for a special event in Birmingham.
We will be hosting a training day based on the work of Autism New Zealand. The event, at the Edgbaston Park Hotel (pictured), is for professionals working with Autistic deaf children and young people in mainstream settings, resource provisions and specialist placements.
A playful approach for young Autistic children – presented by Neil Stuart (Autism New Zealand) and Alison Taylor (Bishop Grosseteste University)
The day will look at Way to Play, an approach to playing joyously with young Autistic children, developed by Neil Stuart and Tanya Blakey from Autism New Zealand.
The approach helps to build children’s communication, social reciprocity, shared attention, imitation, emotion regulation, planning, and problem-solving skills through joyful caregiver-child interactions. Let’s Play is the parent mediated programme developed from the Way to Play approach.
During the training, Neil will describe the theoretical basis of this approach as well as demonstrating strategies used in Way to Play and Let’s Play. Neil will be using a combination of theory, narrative, metaphor, video and interactive examples.
The day will challenge your thinking and understanding of working with Autistic children and young people and we hope you will leave inspired to implement new ideas and ways of working into your own practice with deaf learners.
Further details will be released later in the year. Please email info@ewing-foundation.org.uk if you would like to be added to our e-news list.