Parent training – Discover why your child is behaving this way and how to help!

Understanding the reasons behind behavioural, emotional and social problems is the first step to helping your child. These informative and useful workshops will provide you an understanding of non-verbal communication. They will also enable you to see the types of issues a child with non-verbal communication difficulties has and what strategies can be used to help them.

Parents/carers with babies/toddlers

It is vital that pre-school children who are beginning to talk, or have recently learnt to do so, use non-verbal skills to support and enhance their communication. This workshop is ideal for parents/carers who want to know which areas to develop in their talking child. The workshop covers: 
  • The role of non-verbal skills on communication
  • The impact non-verbal difficulties can have on communication
  • Vital non-verbal skills to develop
  • Simple and effective strategies to prevent non-verbal problems
  • Question and answer session
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Parents/carers with children 3 – 5 years old

Babies and pre-talking toddlers need to have lots of experience of watching other people interacting to develop their own communication skills. Find out in this workshop just how you can help them achieve this. The workshop covers:
  • The role of non-verbal skills on communication
  • The impact non-verbal difficulties can have on communication
  • Vital non-verbal skills to develop in pre-talking babies/toddlers
  • The role of signing to aid communication
  • Simple and effective strategies to prevent non-verbal problems
  • Question and answer session
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Parents/carers with children 6 – 19 years old

If you have noticed that your child struggles to cope in social situations, finds it difficult to make and keep friends, has behavioural problems and/or doesn’t achieve their potential then this is the workshop for you. The workshop covers: 
  • The role of non-verbal skills on communication
  • Issues that face a child with non-verbal communication difficulties
  • Workshops to show some of the problems these children face
  • Simple and effective strategies for use at home and at school
  • Question and answer session
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