Brighter Beginnings: Understanding your child’s behaviour (age 0-5) England
Advice and strategies to help parent carers better understand and manage the behaviours of children (aged 0-5) with additional needs.
Date and time
Location
Online
Good to know
Highlights
- 2 hours
- Online
About this event
While every child is different, children with additional needs or disabilities are more likely to display distressed behaviour or behaviours that challenge as a way of communicating unmet needs.
This online workshop will help you to:
- Understand what behaviour is and what drives it
- Think about how you communicate with your child
- Understand your child’s sensory needs when we think about behaviour
- Explore how behaviour is learnt
- Develop a range of strategies to support your child
There will also be time for questions, discussion, and signposting to further sources of advice and support.
Further information
This workshop will be held on Zoom, it will not be recorded. You are welcome to keep your camera/audio off during the workshop if you would feel more comfortable to do so.
A PDF copy of the workshop slides and useful resources will be emailed to all attendees after the workshop.
This workshop is for parent carers of children (aged 0-5) with additional needs or disabilities (with or without a diagnosis), in England. If your child is aged 6+ and/or you do not live in England, please visit our website or call our helpline for information and support.
Practitioners/Professionals: We regret that we are unable to offer places on this workshop to practitioners/professionals unless you are also a parent carer of a child (aged 0-5) in England. You can book a place on Contact’s workshops and webinars for professionals here: Practitioner workshops and webinars or visit Our offer for professionals to find out more about how Contact can help you to support families.
We are committed to offering workshops that are accessible to the widest audience possible. If you have any accessibility needs regarding this workshop, please get in touch with training.admin@contact.org.uk as early as possible so that we can do our best to meet your needs.
For any enquiries relating to your booking, please email training.admin@contact.org.uk
This Brighter Beginnings workshop is delivered by Contact, as a member of the Early Years SEND partnership.
Brighter Beginnings: Brighter Beginnings is for parents at the beginning of their journey. Through a series of workshops, we support families to tackle some of the unique challenges they might face in the early years. For further information, please visit: Brighter Beginnings
Early Years SEND Partnership: The Early Years SEND Partnership is a national programme supporting professionals and parents with training, resources, and an approach to sharing learning, with the aim to increase access and inclusion in early years for children with SEN and Disabilities. For further information, please visit: About the EYSEND Partnership
Contact: We are Contact, the charity for families with disabled children. We support families with the best possible guidance and information. We bring families together to support each other. And we help families to campaign, volunteer and fundraise to improve life for themselves and others.
For further information and support from Contact, please visit www.contact.org.uk or email info@contact.org.uk
Frequently asked questions
This workshop will be delivered and facilitated by our talented Family Support Consultants. Our trainers are experienced in supporting families whose children have additional needs, and many of our trainers are parent carers themselves.
The workshop will be held on Zoom. We will send all registered attendees an email with the Zoom link one week in advance, and again on the day of the workshop. If possible, please join 5-10 minutes early to enter the waiting room, ready for the workshop to start.
Please check your spam or junk mailbox if you haven’t received any emails from Eventbrite with joining instructions in the run-up to the workshop. If you still need assistance, please email training.admin@contact.org.uk so that our team can help.
You do not need a Zoom account to attend our workshop as a participant. Ahead of the event, we will email you an invite link along with a unique meeting ID and passcode to join the workshop. Simply click the link or input the meeting ID and passcode on www.Zoom.com.
If you need advice on how to use Zoom before the workshop, please email training.admin@contact.org.uk as soon as possible so that we can send you guidance in advance.
No, this workshop will not be recorded in order to preserve the privacy of any group discussions. Attendees will receive a PDF copy of the workshop slides after the workshop, you may find it useful to have a pen and paper handy during the session.
No, you are welcome to join the workshop without your camera/audio on. Please ensure your Zoom participant name matches the name you registered your ticket for, so that we can take a register and ensure a safe place for all attendees.
If you are no longer able to attend the workshop, please cancel your place via Eventbrite or by emailing training.admin@contact.org.uk so that we can offer your place to someone on the waiting list.
We are committed to offering workshops that are accessible to the widest audience possible. If you have any accessibility needs regarding this workshop, please get in touch with training.admin@contact.org.uk as early as possible so that we can do our best to meet your needs.
If your question isn’t answered here, please email us at training.admin@contact.org.uk.