Trauma in the Early Years

This training session is for ACC Education and ELC employees only.

Trauma Informed Practice in childcare, is about recognising and understanding the impact that trauma and adversity has had on children and responding in a way that promotes positive relational experiences.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are defined as named potentially traumatic experiences, occurring in childhood, but there are many other childhood experiences, short or long-term, which may be experienced as trauma and lead to long term impact.

The interplay of trauma and the context in which the child experiences this is very complex. This session will look at how trauma is an individual experience, therefore the same event may impact different children in different ways and consider how best to support children who may have experienced trauma.

More about your presenters here:

Roz Cooper and Wendy Milne have between them over 40 years of working with children and young people who experience difficulties in everyday life. Most of the children we have worked with – at VSA Linn Moor School - have had a diagnosis of autism but the difficulties that children experience in preschool and school settings, is typically driven by a difficulty in communicating, different experience of sensory integration, or a child’s individual experience of life events. We are aware that the impact of the pandemic, the impact of trauma, and the impact of recognised and yet to be diagnosed conditions all play a part.

In our work with VSA’s ASNAP (Additional Support Needs Advisory Project) service, we aim to share knowledge, skills and strategies to inclusively support children with diverse abilities and needs to learn to cope in situations they find aversive, to help them to integrate into the learning environment.

Host or Publisher Aberdeen City Council - Building Capacity Team