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ESDM Training provides a range of remote delivery workshops designed for professionals working with neurodivergent children; educators supporting neurodivergent children in their ECEC settings and;  parents/carers living with neurodivergent children. Through these workshops, participants will learn how to: 

• understand autism and its impact on a child’s learning and development
• become the child’s play partner as a foundation for ongoing learning
• assess and program for autistic children and use child data to monitor progress
• find the child’s smile, capture their attention for learning and build back and forth interactions
• use the evidence-based teaching principles to guide your practice
• promote the child’s development across all developmental domains
• understand and support co-regulation 
• create effective and responsive learning environments for all children

The evidence base used for all workshops is the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM). This is a naturalistic play-based early education that can be embedded in multiple settings, including Intervention Programs, Therapy Clinics, Early Childhood Education and Care Settings, Primary Schools, and the Family Home. The ESDM approach has been manualised, which helps to bring all the adults in the child’s life working towards the same goals. The teaching principles used in this model are informed by expertise from early childhood education and allied health professions. Major learning goals include skills that enable social learning and engagement in naturalistic play and cooperative activities. Play is the natural medium of learning for all young children, so should be used as the most natural medium for neurodivergent children also. Through play and daily routines, we can embed all of the child’s goals, whether it is via object focused play, sensory social play, parent mediated play, or peer play.

Becoming a play partner with neurodivergent children is the most beneficial starting point for their enjoyment of learning for life. All children, regardless of ability, have the right to live their childhood in the most natural way and  learn alongside their similar age peers.