Sensory Development in Infant and Toddlers

A webinar with Elise Waghorn

Unpack the complex sensory world of infants and toddlers and build strategies to support joyful sensory exploration in the early years. Led by Elise Waghorn from Phoenix Support for Educators this self-paced webinar is designed to help educators understand:

  • What is sensory processing?
  • What is sensorimotor development?
  • How to support children’s sensory development?
  • How the brain processes sensory information?
  • What is sensory seeking behaviour?
  • What is sensory defensive behaviour?

 

Learn how to support infants and toddlers in their sensory development.

This self-paced course is designed for educators wishing to deepen their knowledge of how to support children’s sensory development.

Together, we explore practical strategies to enhance sensory experiences for infants and toddlers, giving you the skills and confidence to plan sensitively for their unique sensory needs.

Learn how to confidently foster infant and toddlers play by:

  • Responding to children's need to engage in sensory play.

  • Developing holistic play experiences.

  • Engaging all seven senses within infant and toddlers play.

  • Understanding infant and toddlers individual sensory needs.

  • Supporting children's sensorimotor functioning.

Course curriculum

    1. How to use this platform

    2. Student walk through video

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. Agreement

    4. About your facilitator - Elise Waghorn

      FREE PREVIEW

    1. Recorded Webinar - Learning Through Sensory Play

    1. How does sensory play help my child's development?

    2. Importance of Sensory Integration

    3. Sensory Processing Difficulties

    4. Vestibular

    5. Brain Highways: The Proprioceptive System

    1. Raising Children Network

    2. Sensory Processing Development Chart

    3. Exploring the Benefits of Sensory Play for Children

    1. Fun Cup Mindmap

    2. Safety Cup Mindmap

    3. Sensory Integration Difficulties

    1. Sensory Development Reflection

    2. Final reflection

    3. Get in touch with the team at Phoenix Support

    4. Other Professional and Personal Development Opportunities

About this course

  • $48.00
  • 20 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

Link theory, research, and evidence to your practice and planning

This course will show you how to incorporate the following theories into your planning

  • The Phoenix Cups

    A shared language, an approach, a revolutionary framework. The Phoenix Cups is a philosophical framework that your team can use to share ideas, language, and understandings about human behaviour.

  • The Guidance Approach

    The guidance approached is centred on the idea that children’s behaviours are driven by an attempt to meet a need. Dan Gartrell stresses that an effective learning community is one that fosters creativity through autonomy.

  • Scholarly literature

    Each course is informed by contemporary references to peer-reviewed scholarly articles and highly credible sources, so you can be assured the content is valid, trusted, and reliable.

Bonus material

Enjoy instant access to a resource library on this topic as well as a two-hour live presentation.

  • Videos

    This course includes video content to provide further depth to your knowledge and understanding.

  • Downloadable PDF's

    Downloadable resources that every educator needs to deepen their understanding of how to support infants’ and toddlers’ sensory development.

  • Internet resources

    Web links to key learning material and helpful educator resources.

Your Facilitator

Phoenix Support for Educators

Facilitator, Education and Care Mentor Elise Waghorn

Elise is a huge advocate for giving children a voice in things that directly affect them. She has a passion for play-based learning and uses a strength-based approach with coaching and mentoring. Elise believes she gets the best out of educators by recognising their individual strengths and making sure they can be incorporated within their practice. Elise is the person you want in your corner! She recognises and empathises the challenging (and wonderful) job that educators have, having worked in services previously. Elise joined Phoenix Support for educators in 2016 bringing with her a wealth of knowledge and experience in education and care. In fact, Elise has taught over 21 units in The Bachelor of Early Childhood and Primary and Masters of Early Childhood and Masters of Education. In addition to her coaching and mentoring with Phoenix support for educators Elise is a collective mentor to students in the graduate program at the University of Melbourne. She is also a PhD candidate, and her studies explore scholarly Habitus in children's lifeworld's by exploring high stakes testing and educational capital. All her workshops are theory-based, as Elise heavily researches the literature to provide as much current and peer-reviewed information as possible. Elise currently delivers a number of courses and workshops including the Holistic Infant and Toddler Development series, the Fostering Children’s Wellbeing series, the Protecting Children’s Rights educator training bundle, the Educators' Toolkit for Behaviour workshop, and the Documenting to Discover workshop. She loves developing content-specific information for individual services to meet their needs.

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FAQ

  • How long do I have access to the course?

    You have access to this series for 6 weeks. We estimate it will take you about 4.5 hours to complete the whole series, so we have allowed for 1.5 hour per week and an extra week for catch up for each course.

  • Will I get a certificate?

    To receive your certificate, you must click on 'Complete & Continue' on every page of the course. Once you've done this your certificate download button should come up in the top left corner of your course, where the progress bar is.