Support elsas are trained to plan and deliver programmes of support to pupils in their school who are experiencing temporary or longer term additional emotional needs. They are teaching assistants who have received specific additional training from educational psychologists from whom they. The elsa network strongly disagrees with the assertion that elsa is not appropriate for neurodivergent children and believes this assertion is based on a lack of understanding of the.
Elsa trainers’ manual has been produced to enable others to replicate the highly successful elsa project currently operating across hampshire. Elsa network emotional literacy support assistants an educational psychology led intervention for promoting the emotional wellbeing of children and young people. It comprises ten training presentations.
Resources in addition to advertising products published specifically for elsas, this section has been created for elsas to share intervention ideas or resources they have developed which. Elsa network elsas are emotional literacy support assistants. Planned programmes of support elsa support is much more than having a friendly chat with an anxious pupil. Origins the elsa (emotional literacy support assistant) intervention was originally developed within southampton, then hampshire, by sheila burton, educational.