The Children's Occupational Therapy Service offers an Understanding DCD (dyspraxia) workshop for SENCO’s, Teachers, or Teaching Assistants working in Primary or Middle Schools based in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. This takes place at a venue in Stoke-on-Trent. It supports the graduated response to children with movement difficulties.
Understanding DCD (Dyspraxia) - Impact in the classroom and strategies to help
Date: Tuesday 4th November 2025, 9.30am - 12.30pm
Cost: £50 per person
Venue: Hazel Trees, Duke Street, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 3NU
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Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) / dyspraxia
This workshop will help school staff to:
- Understand terminology and medical criteria for DCD
- Have a greater insight into the difficulties faced by children with DCD
- Support children with DCD within the classroom with personalised and differentiated approaches and tasks
- Be aware of resources that can be used within the classroom for those children who need more targeted support
Playwise workshop
Join us to learn more about why developmental foundation skills are so important:
- Classroom strategies to help children aged 3-5 in nursery/school to develop skills in those everyday movement related activities, needed for future independence in daily tasks, including schoolwork and self-care skills.
- In a recent document, the Royal College of Occupational Therapists identified that “in the UK more children are starting school without the foundation skills and resilience they need to succeed in education and life”.
- Why learning to write is closely linked to a child's gross motor development.
