The following resources contain advice and guidance around supporting specific areas of difficulties in young children.
Attachment
- 3 Guidance for completion of observation checklist
- 4 Observation Checklist for primary age
- Ambivalent Attachment information
- Attachment Information sheet
- Avoidant Attachment information
- Disorganised attachment information
- Helpful strategies for children with attachment difficulties
Autism
- Areas of Difference
- Autism and challenging behaviour - Autism West Midlands info sheet
- Autism and communication - Autism West Midlands info sheet
- Autism and sensory differences - Autism West Midlands info sheet
- Autism, change and transition - Autism West Midlands info sheet
- Developing play and social skills - Autism West Midlands info sheet
Behaviour
- ABC observation form
- Arousal Continuum
- Assertive script sheet
- Behaviour Difficulties, a parent’s perspective - a Solihull Approach resource
- Coping with difficult behaviour - Positive Parenting resource
- E3 ABC observation form
- E7 Behaviour Management
- From Breakfast to Bedtime
- Meltdowns vs Tantrums
- Over the top behaviour in the under tens
- Six steps to dealing with anger
Feeding and sleep
- Feeding, a parents perspective - Solihull Approach resource
- Managing eating and mealtimes for children with ASD
- Messy and food play activities
- Tips and tricks sleep
- Understanding and managing extreme food refusal in toddlers
Motor Skills
- Activities to Develop two-handed skills
- Body awareness Motor Skills Resource Sheets
- Body Awareness
- Classroom motor skills for learning Foundation Stage master
- Developing fine motor skills with young children
- Developing strength in the wrist, hands and fingers
- E6 Gross Motor Skills Screen
- Fine motor activities
- Finger Isolation
- Finger Gym
- Hand Grip and Strengthening Activities
- Hand Gym
- Motor Planning Activities
- Pincer Grip and Grasping
- Pre-school activities for shoulder stability and control
- Scissor Skills
- Shoulder Stability Motor Skills Resource Sheets
- Trunk Stability Motor Skills Resource Sheets
- W Sitting
- Wrist Mobility
Play
- E10 Play Partnering
- E11 Mirroring Strategy
- E12 Introducing Routines of Play
- Pre-school activities to promote the development of perceptual skills
Sensory
Speech, Language and Communication
- Babys First Word
- Communicating effectively - Do’s & Don'ts
- Communicate Through Music
- Communicating Dads
- Dummies English
- E9 Visual support system
- E13 Ideas to Improve Attention and Listening
- Hello English
- Language Acquisition Pyramid
- Organisational Skills
- Play English
- Premature Baby
- Rhymes English
- Strengthening the bond
- Television English
- Tips for Talking 0 to 3 months
- Tips for Talking 3 to 6 months
- Tips for Talking 6 to 12 months
- Tips for Talking 12 to 18 months
- Tips for Talking 18 months to 2 years
- Tips for Talking 2 to 3 years
- Tips for Talking 3 to 4 years
- Top tips for speech & language development with reasons why
- Twin Talk
- Solihull integrated Speech Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) Pathway