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List of contents
Three books make up the resource pack:
Supporting Children with Anxiety to Understand and Celebrate Difference - A ‘Get to Know Me’ Guide for Practitioners
Get to Know Me: Anxiety – An Interactive Workbook
Maddie The Sloth: A ‘Get to Know Me’ Storybook
About the author
Louise Lightfoot is an Educational and Child Psychologist working with children and young people aged 0-25. She is also currently undertaking a doctorate at the University of Manchester. Louise recently won a writing competition for her book: ‘Ezra’s Extraordinary Stripes’, produced to raise awareness and money for the charity: The Ehlers Danlos Association. As a person who suffers with both Ehlers Danlos and dyslexia she has a firsthand understanding of the frustrations and difficulties that accompany a specific physical or learning difficulty and therefore has a passion for raising awareness and encouraging empathy in others.
Summary
The ‘Get to Know Me’ series is a series of resources aimed at children with SEN or EBD and the professionals who support them in the mainstream primary classroom. Each resource concentrates on a different condition and comprises:
a traditional children’s picturebook – designed to support the individual child but also to be used in whole class teaching, to encourage an empathetic and inclusive environment.
an interactive work book. This is a workbook version of the story in which indvidual children are encouraged to interact with the story in a creative way – through writing, drawing, scrap booking, collage, activities etc. (templates and cut outs will be made available online). Children are more likely to understand and process information if they have had to actively engage with it. The workbook will aid long-term recall and increase the level of understanding.
a practitioner guide created for key adults (teachers, therapists and parents) by a child psychologist, with activities specific to each condition. These activities will link to the books and offer practical tools and strategies to support the child and those around them in addition to the information specific to the condition to improve understanding of a child’s needs to promote empathy and acceptance.
