Thank you to everyone who attended our special conference on autism in Birmingham on 4th March:
A playful approach for autistic children – presented by Neil Stuart (Autism New Zealand) and Alison Taylor (Bishop Grosseteste University)
Our training day was built around the work of Autism New Zealand. It looked at Way to Play, an approach to playing joyously with autistic children, developed by Neil Stuart and Tanya Blakey from Autism New Zealand.
Together, we looked at how this approach can help build children’s communication, social reciprocity, shared attention, imitation, emotion regulation, planning, and problem-solving skills through joyful caregiver-child interactions. Neil and Alison also introduced Let’s Play, the parent mediated programme developed from the Way to Play approach.
During the training, Neil and Alison described the theoretical basis of this approach as well as demonstrating strategies used in Way to Play and Let’s Play. We hope this engaging and interactive day leaves our delegates inspired to implement new ideas and ways of working into their own practice with deaf learners.
Thank you to Education Advisor Carole Wood for organising this special day, and to Neil and Alison for delivering such a lively and informative event. Thank you too to the team at the Edgbaston Park Hotel Conference Centre for making us so welcome.
Find out more about our deafness and Autism Spectrum Condition networking group.