An Interactive Workshop on The FUNdamentals

Language, Literacy and Social Emotional Learning: The FUNdamentals

Featuring: Amy Nelson, LCSW, LSCSW, RPT-S

As a founder of Emotional Milestones, LLC, she helps early childhood professionals prioritize and optimize mental and behavioral supports for young children.

For the last decade, Amy has worked in early childhood classrooms, in both general and special education settings. An engaging storyteller, Amy is skilled at teaching in a dynamic way that bridges theory and practice for others. She is regarded for her high-quality, high-energy, insightful professional development experiences, speaking at local, state, and national conferences each year.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to be inspired by Amy!

The FUNdamentals – Course Description

Research shows that children’s social and emotional development is fundamentally linked to the growth of language and early literacy. In this hands-on, interactive workshop, participants will discover how play-based experiences are key to fostering these school readiness skills.

Participants will explore creative ways to develop engaging and purposeful play-based environments, interactions, and activities with language and literacy objectives in mind.

In this training early childhood providers will:

• Gain a deeper understanding of how play benefits emotional development as a pathway to language and early literacy
• Acquire strategies for creating play-based environments, interactions, and activities that support language, emergent literacy and fosters social-emotional learning
• Create a play-based lesson plan targeting language and literacy objectives

“I spent the whole presentation shaking my head “yes” constantly. She was not only on point and knew her topic 110%, she was energetic and infectious!”

– Sarah B.

This training is made possible by the DC3 Foundation Communities Supporting Early Literacy (Dodge City): Starting Early Grant funded by the Kansas Health Foundation. The Kansas Health Foundation is a philanthropy dedicated to improving the health of all Kansans. For more information about the Kansas Health Foundation, visit www.kansashealth.org.