Michelle Anderson's List: Social-emotional development in early childhood

Massive article but if you are interested in early intervention of social-emotional problems this is a great resource. This article covers the benefits of self awareness and early intervention programmes, such as PBS (yes the one we did last session in Learning and Applying). It is important to recognising and understand certain behavioral signs,environmental risk and future implications of social-emotional wellbeing. "Socially and emotionally competent children are better prepared for the transition to kindergarten and a future of social successes" (p.535)

AOTA has many feature articles which are useful resources. In this article information is presented on how OT's can address early childhood performance by educating children in social skills and enabling them to recognise their own emotions. The approach used was to steer away from 1:1 and use an integrated service. This supports and facilitates social aspects and objectives. The differnet learning styles were offered in the clasroom to accomodate the varying levels/stages of learning, expression and then for reviewing. A sensory based activity was used in their learning sessions and provide to be a malleable tool.