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Looking for some Early Years advice?

Mrs T

Hi all, 

I am a Senior Nursery Nurse from Scotland, currently based in the toddler room of a small private nursery. I work with children aged 18 months - 3 years. I have worked in childrcare for 10 years, and 2 years supporting adults with a variety of Additional Support Needs, including ASD, however I have no experience of ASD in children and none of my collegues have been much use.

Here's my current situation - 

I have a little boy (not quite 2 years old yet) who is showing signs of being on the spectrum. Parents have already taken concerns to health visitor and we have a child planning meeting set for the middle of May. The child is non verbal, only takes part in solitary play and shows little to no awareness of his surroundings. Also his home language is Polish (creating a language barrier from the get go) but according to mum, is unresponsive to either language. 

As his key worker, I would like to put some strategies in place before the planning meeting, as other staff in the room are really negative towards his behaviour and I feel this is impacting on the child's learning experience. I have spoke to the owner and she is willing for me to implement anything I feel will support him.

Can anyone offer any advice on strategies suitable for this age of child? Something either 1:1 or to encourage inclusion. His only two interests are lining cars up and Peppa Pig.

Thank you so much for any help you can give.

Mrs T

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  • Have you got the early years ed pych involved? thats the first thing i would do, they done this for my son, she came in and advised them to put him on school action plus immiedately, of course i was naive then diddnt have a clue what was going on.

    I would also get a visual timetable, and go through this with the child, i would get a set of pecs, i would also if the child has speech and laungage problems when asking the child a question would say which one would you like? the orange juice or the blackcurrant juice pointing at both and let the child choose one by point at it try and do that as much as poss.

    I would also try and keep the child out of very busy noisy envoirments, my child was in the nursey joined to school and they took the nursery children into the school lunch hall for dinner my child could not cope with this so they kept him in class on his own with one of the workers.

    I would also prepare for fire alams when necc, i would encourage friendships as much as poss, would try to use some sensory stuff too, like sand, shaving foam ect.

    What I would also do is talk to the parents tell them your concerns as a parent you tend to get left in the dark and very little information given if that makes sense, its not untill the last few years i actually realised what a bad time my sons nursery had with him.

    One last thing, always make sure you tell the child about things that are changing, you can do this with a visual timetable by putting a suprise pec in, i think the important thing is to be on the ball with communication with the child, hope this helps.

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  • Have you got the early years ed pych involved? thats the first thing i would do, they done this for my son, she came in and advised them to put him on school action plus immiedately, of course i was naive then diddnt have a clue what was going on.

    I would also get a visual timetable, and go through this with the child, i would get a set of pecs, i would also if the child has speech and laungage problems when asking the child a question would say which one would you like? the orange juice or the blackcurrant juice pointing at both and let the child choose one by point at it try and do that as much as poss.

    I would also try and keep the child out of very busy noisy envoirments, my child was in the nursey joined to school and they took the nursery children into the school lunch hall for dinner my child could not cope with this so they kept him in class on his own with one of the workers.

    I would also prepare for fire alams when necc, i would encourage friendships as much as poss, would try to use some sensory stuff too, like sand, shaving foam ect.

    What I would also do is talk to the parents tell them your concerns as a parent you tend to get left in the dark and very little information given if that makes sense, its not untill the last few years i actually realised what a bad time my sons nursery had with him.

    One last thing, always make sure you tell the child about things that are changing, you can do this with a visual timetable by putting a suprise pec in, i think the important thing is to be on the ball with communication with the child, hope this helps.

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