Early Childhood

Online Portal for Educators of Neurodiverse Children (OPEN-EY)

Developed by
Karen O'Connor & Carmel Burke,
Consultant Speech Language Therapists

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Welcome

This Portal has been developed specifically for Preschool teachers, AIM (Access and Inclusion Model) Support Workers and Parents to help each child in the Early Years programme with neurodiverse needs achieve their greatest potential.

This Portal shares the most effective, up-to-the-minute and most easily accessible information about how to support, develop and optimise the communication skills and sensory development of each child in the Early Years programme. The Portal has been created by Karen O’Connor and Carmel Burke, Speech and Language Therapists who have over fifty years of experience combined working with children with neurodiverse needs in the Early Years programme.

It has been created as an online Portal so that preschool teachers, AIMS (Access and Inclusion Model) Workers and Parents can easily and readily access answers to all their questions relating to each child’s communication development, language development, sensory development, play and social development and setting up the classroom as an optimum learning environment.

By accessing this Portal you will learn ways to:

deepen your understanding of each child’s sensory and communication needs within the Early Years programme
provide the optimum support for each child by identifying and understanding their specific sensory and communication needs
increase positive behaviour and communication by decreasing behaviours of concern using different sensory diet strategies and programmes
reduce what appears to be ‘destructive’ or ‘aggressive’ behaviours within the classroom and optimise the experience for each child in the classroom
optimise the child with neurodiverse needs ability to be calm, listen and learn effectively with the Early Years programme
improve the child’s outcomes through individualised programmes, sensory-diets, strategies and approaches
reduce your own stress levels by understanding better what the child with neurodiverse needs so as to reach their true potential
be a valuable and knowledgeable resource in the area of neurodiversity for Parents and colleagues alike.

All of this will be available to you at the touch of a button so that we can help each child to learn and participate in school to the best of their ability.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Early Childhood

Online Portal for Educators of Neurodiverse Children (OPEN-EY)

Welcome

By accessing this Portal you will learn ways to:

Main Topics

Environment – How to optimize a child’s learning environment

Sensory – How to help a child to be calm and ready to learn

Communication – How to identify and manage a child’s communication needs in the Early Years setting

Play & Social – How to optimise a Child’s Play and Social Development

Tailor Made Sensory Diets

Further Mentoring & Training