This course focuses on helping SNAs support students’ emotional well-being, communication, and social development. Through practical strategies and real-life examples, you’ll learn how to build relationships, promote inclusion, use visual supports, and guide students in managing their emotions and interactions more confidently.
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What you will learn:
Understand the connection between emotions, behaviour and communication: Recognise how emotional regulation and communication influence pupils’ behaviour and learning.
Support social skills and positive peer relationships:
Learn strategies to help pupils build friendships and feel included.
Use visual supports and routines to promote self-regulation:
Build confidence in using visuals, schedules and routines that help pupils feel secure and focused.
Encourage participation in group and class activities:
Explore ways to engage pupils who may find it difficult to join in with others.
Apply tools like emotional check-ins and the 5 Point Scale:
Use practical approaches to help pupils recognise and manage their feelings effectively.
created by
Annette Ormond
I am a primary teacher working in schools for the past nineteen years. I am a passionate lifelong learner and am currently completing a Masters in Educational Leadership through Waterford Institute of Technology. I have graduated with a degree in psychology from the Open University. I have completed many different courses in the area of educating students with Additional Needs and I have significant and varied experience in the area including working in SET, special class teaching and as a SENCO. I have worked with many different schools nationwide planning different aspects of the Continuum of Support with them and planning provision in their school for students with additional needs. I believe wholeheartedly in the difference we can make in the lives of people with many
additional needs through our understanding and our knowledge. I worked with the Dyslexia Association of Ireland for eight years, as a tutor on the SNA course with UCD, and as a lecturer with Hibernia College on the Inclusion and Diversity module with the PME students. I was awarded the IATSE Testimonial and Award for excellence in Support Teaching in 2017 when studying in University College Dublin and the Louise Madigan Bursary Award for research in education in 2021. I worked as a member of the ILSA Executive Committee.
