Webinar: Importance of Early Intervention for Gross Motor Skills in Babies and Young Children with VI

Course evaluation summary

Number of Participants: 123
Number of Respondents: 37

Overall Assessment:

What was best about the session?

Very informative.
Varied information and practical strategies.
Lots of useful strategies.
Very practical suggestions.
Thinking of strategies to support young children.
Discussing specific strategies and types of resources that can be used
All of it. Very useful with good ideas and suggestions for resources.
The guidance on strategies tied to developmental stage was really useful.
Excellent suggestions for me to feel equiped when visiting my first babies (8 weeks and 1 year), different homes, more excited now than nervous.
It was structured well and gave some useful information.
A few ideas I might not have thought about and the resources, especially the pathways.org for milestones.
Linking all the parts together and emphasising the importance of gross motor skills.
The strategies/ideas provided to assist with developing individual skills.
Being able to compare intervention I have been doing with a young child against advice given in webinar.
The range of practical scenarios covered.
Fiona's knowledge and expertise.
The various ways with toys and the environment to support gross motor development.
A good refresher and different ideas for gross motor skills.
All the information and practical suggestions.
That it gave me some new ideas.
The practical ideas and strategies were the best part.
Contained really useful information and strategies to put into practice. Good references to look up further information and clear instructions for hand on support and when this might be required.
Experienced speakers who could discuss nuance and variation very well.
The webinar was very clearly presented and the practical examples of how to support babies into certain positions were helpful.
The speakers excellent subject knowledge.
All of the information.
Balance of presenters, visuals and supporting links.
Approaches and holistic way in which skills are/can be developed.
It was full of really helpful and practical advice which will have an immediate impact on my practice.
Real life examples which were very practical.
The useful resources.
The webinar was well paced, I had to pause the video at times to write things down. The specialist knowledge of the presenters was clear and they were able to share relevant anecdotes to demonstrate points they were making.
The new ideas and information I gained that I can use in my work with babies and young children that I support.
Ideas of toys/equipment with photos to show.
Great to hear so much excellent advice about how to support very young VI children.
Knowledge of practitioners and Highlighting resources.
I liked the fact that information and learning that I have previously used/put in place was reinforced as being a good way to get these skills. Information and resources looked at what was readily available rather than considering specialist toys. Also reinforcing the importance and role of parents/carers.

What, if anything, do you think should have been included?

Great pace for the end of the working day!
Can't think of anything else that you could have squeezed in. Many thanks for putting this webinar together, extremely helpful.
A follow up focused on slightly older children including building on to fine motor skills. I felt the webinar was really comprehensive within its remit; I'd love future input on adapting for dual-sensory impairment or more complex needs.
I think it was really useful and full of lots of valuable information and tips. So glad I came in from the sunshine for this. x
It was great as it was.
The questions at the end were also great always helps and never quite enough time Maybe a short video showing teaching practice.
It was great, I just wish it could have been longer. An hour didn't feel long enough. more of an explanation how the vestibular system helps with balance and natural fall reflexes. Plus, the importance of language as they play and explore.
It would be good for some ideas for those young people who are more complex, VI.
My only comment is that there was a lot of information to take in, in one hour - I would have liked the session to be broken down into two sessions so that I had time to listen, read the slides and take notes. The webinar was brilliant though.
I felt the webinar covered the topic well so can't think of anything.
I thought it was absolutely brilliant.
This can be tricky due to permissions etc but it would have been good to see video demonstrations of different activities to support the verbal description.
I appreciate this webinar was aimed at habilitation specialists as well as QTVIs. It was mentioned at the start that whilst QTVIs do not replace the role of a QHS, sometimes they are the only person supporting the family at this early stage and may need to demonstrate how to initiate early movement for their child. This is sometimes the case in reverse e.g. a QHS is supporting a child who does not yet have a QTVI - but it was not mentioned that a QHS may need to step in to cover the role of a QTVI. I think the fact this was mentioned one way and not the other slightly minimises the role, skills and necessity of a QHS being involved at the early stages if we are telling QTVIs they can just step in to cover what a QHS does, but not saying the same for what a QTVI would do. Both professionals are required and highly specialised. It may have been useful to more clearly differentiate the roles in reference to the DJVI. For example, where possible we would all be working together, but a QHS would typically lead on movement and mobility, and play and learning sections whilst the QTVI/health visitor would lead with the rest.
Maybe a short video clip?
Great as it was.
I found this webinar to be excellent with real life examples adding to the two very experienced professionals.
As the time was limited maybe a link to videos could be included in the follow up information.
I don't think so - would just be nice to see theme to be continued to develop. Thank you for your continued development of webinars and topics.
Nothing or N/A (13)

How did you hear about this course?

SSC Website: 9
SSC direct email: 7
SSC eBulletin: 7
Line manager: 5
Colleague: 3
HAB VIUK: 3
VIEW: 3

What other CPD training would you like the SSC to provide?

It would be great to have further webinars on supporting babies that build on today's.
Input for dual sensory impairment/encouraging movement for those with CLN.
Fine motor skills would be interesting.
A similar course in relation to fine motor skills.
A fine gross motor skills session as discussed would be great. A session on how to teach directional concepts and skills.
Development of fine motor skills. Continue the series on gross motor skills with videos and practical examples. Developing gross motor skills for older children and teenagers.
Ideas of games for introducing the long cane and for learning routes,to make things more enjoyable!
Preschool age.
I'm open to any training as there is always more to learn!
I specialise in VI but particularly assessment of children with profound learning disabilities - would you offer a future webinar to look at this and their development, tips on habilitation. Early on I'm guessing the work is very similar because the learning disability is not always diagnosed until milestones are missed. Appreciate this webinar was targeted on typically developing and that was clear, still very useful for me.
ILS for hab.
Fine motor skills. Information on CVI. Early Play skills.
Interventions for severe complex ASN.
Next stages of gross motor skills - how to build up and teach skills of hopping, skipping, running.
A fine motor skill session in the future would be great.
Fine motor skills.
A follow up on fine motor skills as suggested in the webinar would be very welcome.
Fine motor was a suggestion and that would be a good idea (after gross of course!)
Continuation of skills required in early years, possibly fine motor as suggested and ways this can be encouraged - I have seen some useful OT style video's on Facebook and how a play activity can be used to develop a day to day activity.