WHO eLearning Caregiver Skills Training for Families of Children with Developmental Delays or Disabilities

Course information

What you'll learn

• Explain ways you can connect with your child by enjoying and sharing daily activities.
• Explain ways you can help your child to communicate and learn new things.
• Explain ways you can help your child show more positive behaviour and less challenging behaviour.
• Explain ways you can help your child learn skills for everyday living with your help.
• Describe ways to support your own health and well-being.

Course contents

• Introduction:

  Programme overview

• Module 1: Getting children engaged:

  In this module you will learn how to: explore your child’s strengths and challenges; discover what activities your child likes; and pay attention to your child’s behaviour during activities.

• Module 2: Continuing to get children engaged:

  In this module you will learn how to: set up the environment to support engagement with your child; and move in front of your child and offer your child choices to promote engagement.

• Module 3: Keeping children engaged:

  In this module you will learn: more about developmental delays and disabilities; about myths that some people believe; and the importance of sharing engagement for your child's learning.

• Module 4: Keeping children engaged in interaction:

  In this module you will learn how to: practise fun and positive activities with your child; notice when your child is motivated and likes an activity; and notice good behaviour and praise your child during activities.

• Module 5: Helping children to share engagement in play and home routines:

  In this module you will learn how to: create play and home routines that you can do every day with your child; connect with your child and share engagement in routines; and keep your child interested in the shared activity.

• Module 6: Helping children to participate in play routines:

  In this module you will learn how to: create play routines that you can do with your child; keep your child interested in the activity and help your child spend more time sharing engagement; and work through difficulties when playing with your child.

• Module 7: Understanding communication:

  In this module you will learn: ways that children communicate with and without using words; and how to look for, listen and respond to children's communication in everyday activities.

• Module 8: Promoting communication:

  In this module you will learn: how to look and listen to understand when children are communicating to share and when children are communicating to request; how to create opportunities for communication in our everyday activities; and how to notice and respond to your child’s communication.

• Module 9: Teaching new skills in small steps and levels of help:

  In this module you will learn: how to divide big tasks, such as dressing and handwashing, into small steps; how to select which small step to teach first; about the different levels of help that you can provide to help your child learn the steps; and how to give your child the lowest level of help necessary, both in play and home routines.

• Module 10: Understanding your child's behaviour:

  In this module you will learn: how to understand the messages that children are trying to send us using challenging behaviour; and ways to try to prevent the challenging behaviour.

• Module 11: Preventing challenging behaviour - Helping children stay engaged and regulated:

  In this module you will learn: how to help children stay regulated (calm, cool and ready to learn); and ways to understand and prevent challenging behaviour.

• Module 12: Understanding the Reasons for Challenging Behaviour:

  In this module you will learn: how to use pictures to help your child know what’s happening next and prepare to change activities; and how to find out the reason for challenging behaviour so you will know how to respond so the behaviour happens less often.

• Module 13: Teaching alternatives to challenging behaviours:

  In this module, you will learn more about how to understand the reasons for challenging behaviour and how to respond to challenging behaviour so that it happens less often.

• Module 14: Ongoing practise and goal setting:

  In this module you will learn about the progress that you and your child have made; how to set new goals for your child’s communication; and how to expand your routines by adding new steps and linking routines together.

• Module 15: Problem solving and self-care:

  In this module you will learn about stress and self-care and how to find solutions to problems that may come up.

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Certificate Requirements

• Gain a Record of Achievement by earning at least 80% of the maximum number of points from all graded assignments.
• Gain an Open Badge by completing the course.