The Sensory Aware Early Years Toolkit: Approaches to Enhance Sensory Wellbeing in Your Setting

Sensory wellbeing is central to everything in the early years.This practical toolkit helps you understand how sensory experiences impact young children’s ability to play, learn and connect, and turn that understanding into everyday action, across your whole setting.Written for busy early years teams, the book accessibly explains the eight senses and shows how sensory profiles can look very different for each child or adult practitioner. With everything you need to create a setting where all children feel safe, regulated, and ready to learn and thrive, it: Helps you spot when behaviour is really a child communicating, “this feels too much”, or “I need more”. Encourages the reader to explore their own sensory preferences and triggers, because regulated adults create regulated spaces. Is packed with resources, including a self-assessment tool and audit, universal and targeted strategies, and suggestions for tweaks to the environment. Provides realistic, easy-to-implement next steps that c