Category Archives: Videos

Heavy work helps to calm or alert the body by stimulating the proprioceptive system. Implementing Heavy Work can decrease challenging behaviours and help the child take initiative by learning what works well for them. Heavy Work is any activity that pushes and pulls the body and places pressure on joints and muscles giving the child input and awareness of where their body begins and ends.

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Short Webinars for Parents

Based on the questions the CISS team has received from families, our behaviour team has answered some of these in these short webinars.

Bored Children
Children Testing Limits
Anxiety in 3 year olds
Anxiety in 6 year olds
Anxiety in 10 year olds

Supporting diverse communities to BLOOM!

For April’s Five Moore Minutes video we are reminded about the importance of supporting inclusive learning communities! So often, we respond to individuals in crisis by removing them from a learning community, rather than seeing crisis and responding to the entire community with wrap around support. This 5MM video will be connecting with supplemental content including The Five Moore Minutes Podcast which can be found on all podcast platforms.

School Age: Starting a Club

We followed AFCS Stittsville as they piloted a clubs curriculum. We interviewed them before and after the launch to see their journey, planning and lessons learned.

Empathetic Responses

Pina Giovannitti, Behaviour Consultant at Children’s Inclusion Support Services talks about Empathetic Responses and how this strategy can reduce challenging behaviours in your program.

Also see:
Part 1 – Safe and Secure Relationships
Part 3 – Conflict Resolution

Safe and Secure Relationships

CISS Behaviour Consultant Pina Giovannitti explains Safe and Secure Relationship and how it can reduce challenging behaviours in your program. The first video in a series of 3. See Empathetic Response and Conflict Resolution.