Support and signposting resources -
Fine Motor Skills: Teaching Your Child to Develop a ‘Pincer Grasp’ - activities to support the development of fine hand skills which require a pincer grasp.
Fine Motor Skills: Teaching Your Child to Post/Release Objects - an important skill to learn before tackling more complex fine motor skills such as puzzles, shape sorters, threading, etc.
Fine Motor Skills: Teaching Your Child to Thread - an important skill that underlies a number of daily living tasks including being able to fasten and unfasten buttons.
Fine Motor Skills: Teaching Your Child to Use Scissors - lots of activities to develop the 'squeezing' action of the thumb and fingers that is required for using scissors.
Physical Development, Moving and Handling: Teaching Your Child to Sit – activities to support your child to develop the strength and skills needed for sitting.
Physical Development, Moving and Handling: Teaching Your Child to Crawl – activities to support your child to develop the strength and skills needed for crawling.
Physical Development and Self Care Skills: Teaching Your Child to Drink from an Open Cup – activities to support your child to develop the oral skills needed for drinking / feeding.
Physical Development and Self Care Skills: Teaching Your Child to Use a Spoon – activities to support your child to develop the fine motor skills needed to begin using a spoon.
Development Matters was produced by Early Education with support from the Department for Education. It is non-statutory guidance which supports all those working in early childhood education settings to implement the requirements of the Statutory Framework for the EYFS.
Early Support Developmental Journals from the Council for Disabled Children.
The Early Years Developmental Journal is designed for families, practitioners and others to use as a way of recording, celebrating and supporting children's progress.
This Developmental Journal for babies and children with Downs syndrome is a set of charts that families use to record what their child is able to do as time passes and they learn new things.
Early vision and general development is vulnerable in children with visual impairment in the early years. Early intervention is critical for ensuring optimal visual and developmental progress.
The Early Support Monitoring protocol for deaf babies and children was devised to help families of deaf children (and the professionals that support them) document the progress that children make in the first three years or so after deafness has been identified.
Guidance on the special educational needs and disability (SEND) system for children and young people aged 0 to 25, from 1 September 2014.