This text-based course is a transcript of the webinar, “Supporting Young Children’s Social-Emotional Literacy: Effective & Evidence-based PBS Strategies” presented by Pamelazita Buschbacher, Ed.D., CCC-SLP.
>> Pamela Buschbacher: It is a pleasure to be here again to present a topic that is very important to me, to children and families as well as the professionals who teach young children who are developing in a typical fashion and those who have developmental delays. I would like to understand my audience a bit. How many of you provide services to young children birth to three? How many of you provide services to children three and older? Three to 7? How about those professionals who provide support to families who have children with developmental delays? How about people who provide services and support to teachers of young children 3 to 7 years of age? How many of you teach children who are older than 7? What I am going to be presenting today is applicable in all those environments, in terms of supporting parents, young children, children over age seven, and children who chronologically are older but developmentally are younger than seven. I have had the opportunity to support and teach children, both as a speech-language pathologist and an educator, from nine months through 21 years of age. Particularly when we are talking about children on the autism spectrum, children with ADHD or even adults with diagnoses such as those, social-emotional becomes a very big piece of the work that we do.
Today, we will define what emotional attachment is, and this information comes from the mental health field for young children also. We will be defining emotional literacy and what that is about. It is not just about books, but it is a word that is being used among mental health professionals, early childhood educators, and primary educators. I will describe three variables that can actually impact the child's emotional literacy development. Some of these variables will be connected to previous knowledge that you have. I will also share some new information with you and resources that you can access for supporting children’s social-emotional development.
Today's presentation will address six essential elements in what is called the “emotional literacy” schemata. At the end of this course you will be able to identify at least five evidence-based practices for supporting young children and their development of a rich emotional literacy and its relevance to us as speech and language pathologists.
In previous presentations that I have provided for Speech Pathology.com, I have shown this pyramid (Figure 1).
