If COVID has taught us anything, it’s that we no longer need to leave the house - let alone our sofa - to upskill. And so Soiléir have been using this enforced ‘desk time’ working hard to provide a variety of online learning opportunities.

For Behaviour Support Practitioners, we continue to offer our online CEU’s for the BACB (Behaviour Analyst

This year, we’ve been busy this year teaming up with the wonderful crew at Education Elephant. It is a home grown Irish company whose aim is to provide parents and caring professionals with access to expert knowledge and support to ensure every child flourishes. With Education Elephant, we’ve developed an online course focused on Listening skills called “How to Listen so your Child Will Talk”. In this course, we’ll share advice on how to listen to children to enhance rapport, meaningful communication and problem solving, drawing on theories from both Motivational Interviewing and Positive Behaviour Support. You can enroll here.

We’re also delivering a Webinar with Education Elephant on 12th October 2021 from 7pm-8pm called ‘Support A Child Experiencing Sensory Overload Using Positive Behaviour Support’. This webinar is geared at both parents and professionals. During this webinar, you can we’ll be having a close looks at the eight (yip - you read that right - eight) senses, and how we can support a child who becomes overwhelmed by their sensory world in a gentle, nurturing way using Positive Behaviour Support. You can register here.

We’ll be adding more online learning options as we go, so keep an eye on our online learning page to see what’s new.

Gillian Martin is a Chartered Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland, and a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst