4th March 2026, 9.30am – 4pm.
Way to Play: a playful approach for young autistic children presented by Neil Stuart (Autism New Zealand) and Alison Taylor (Bishop Grosseteste University)
Edgebaston Park Hotel, 53 Edgebaston Park Road, Birmingham B15 2RS
Tickets £75
We will be hosting a special training day based on the work of Autism New Zealand. The event is for professionals working with autistic deaf children and young people in mainstream settings, resource provisions and specialist placements.
The day will look at Way to Play, an approach to playing joyously with young autistic children, developed by Neil Stuart and Tanya Blakey from Autism New Zealand.
The approach helps to build children’s communication, social reciprocity, shared attention, imitation, emotion regulation, planning, and problem-solving skills through joyful caregiver-child interactions. Let’s Play is the parent mediated programme developed from the Way to Play approach.
During the training, Neil will describe the theoretical basis of this approach as well as demonstrating strategies used in Way to Play and Let’s Play. Neil will be using a combination of theory, narrative, metaphor, video and interactive examples.
The day will challenge your thinking and understanding of working with autistic children and young people and we hope you will leave inspired to implement new ideas and ways of working into your own practice with deaf learners.
We only have 60 tickets to this small, special event so an early booking is recommended. We hope to see you in March.
Please click here to find out more and book your place.
Links to: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/ewingfoundation/1946605
