Content round-up: Neurodivergent play
Want to find out more about how to make play more inclusive for neurodivergent children? Check out our content round-up, showcasing our top picks of articles, podcast episodes and videos that will help shape your practice.
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Want to find out more about how to make play more inclusive for neurodivergent children? Check out our content round-up, showcasing our top picks of articles, podcast episodes and videos that will help shape your practice.
Podcast episodes:
Izzy is joined by early years specialists Kerry Murphy and David Cahn. They discuss neurodivergent play, exploring:
- Kerry’s A–Z of Neurodiverse Play
- David’s work as a neurodiversity-affirming childminder
- How we can decolonise play in early years settings
With a new school term comes a new season of the SEND Network Podcast! In our first episode of 2025, Izzy Felton is joined by Simon Airey. Izzy and Simon discuss neurodivergent play, covering open-ended play, allowing children to play their way and using observations to plan play opportunities.
Articles:
Young children learn about the world around them through play. It is a universal language of childhood and can help children to self-regulate, relax and decompress. This article considers how neurodivergent play is contextualised and whether there is a ‘right’ or ‘wrong way to play.
Manager of Yoga in Schools, Chrissy Longley, gives us an insight into the benefits of yoga for children with SEND. She also highlights the benefits for both parents and teachers too.
This four-part series looks at schemas and how young children can learn through schematic play. Each part will focus on three different schemas and will provide a brief description of what they are.
Videos:
Welcome to the Safe to Learn course with Angela Greenwood. The course looks at working with vulnerable children effectively, through nurture, understanding and thinking. In this session, we will be looking at play, creativity and stories, looking after ourselves and the thinking school.
Content Team, SEND Network
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