Offer small group interventions to promote positive peer interactions:
- Use of sensory and interactive play with bubbles and other motivating
- Use of outdoor games and physical activities (e.g. chasing games, ready-steady-go).
- Incorporate outdoor space to promote physical development, gross motor skills. Use of activities to support proprioception regulation e.g. deep pressure activities, spinning, stimming etc.
- Use of the Attention and Listening Skills intervention to develop joint attention and group work skills
- Inclusion in small group activities to work on turn taking and social skills, such as Time to Talk.
Offer interventions and attachment focused programmes to support relationships between children and adults (early years practitioners and parents/carers) such as Theraplay activities which are based on building attachments, self-esteem, trust and joy. The activities are centred around structure, engagement, nurture and challenge.