Access to support from an additional key person in the setting to facilitate access to the EYFS curriculum, help the child manage their needs, or move with safety around their environment.
Flexible support in the setting to include personal care e.g. dressing and toileting.
Ensure access to additional and specialist equipment, as advised by professionals such as Occupational therapists or Physiotherapists Therapy Health Services - Bury Council.
Ensure all staff in the setting receive relevant training e.g. manual handling (e.g. Team Teach).
Provide the child with additional time to complete activities.
Use of Now and Next or visual activity timeline to increase motivation and reinforce achievements.
Use appropriate size and height chairs and tables to encourage a correct posture and to support fine motor function and writing.
Should appropriate height tables and chairs not be possible for all activities, consider support for the child’s feet.
Provide handrails on stairs. Consider grab bars or rails within the toilet area or provide access to a disabled toilet.
Consider the use of a ring reducer for toilets as well as support for feet to promote correct posture and feeling of safety.
Ensure the child can reach and use the equipment and facilities in the setting, such as wash basins, taps and pegs.
Provide additional resources e.g. sloping board, adapted cutlery, bowls, cups, scissors and pencil grips etc.
Provide a peg for the child with a visual prompt of their name and relevant picture to store their book bag, coat, spare clothes etc.
Provide the option for the child to sit on a chair rather than on the floor at carpet time/group sessions. Allow a peer or peers to do the same, if appropriate.
Contact other EY settings to observe and share good practice.
Set up an indoor or outdoor obstacle course using equipment of different heights to encourage a range of movements e.g. climbing, crawling, tummy wriggling, rolling and sliding.
Focus on gross motor activities including dough disco, ribbon dancing, large scale mark making etc.
Support children and their families to access universal and targeted services as appropriate in their local Children’s Centres and Local Offer.
Opportunities for individual and small group fine motor skill development work using play equipment, e.g. Aqua beads, chopsticks game, Lego, iron on beads and jigsaws.
Specific fine and gross motor skill interventions (previously listed) that may be carried out in small groups and targeted towards a child’s needs.