Helping your child with Down syndrome manage their emotions

Supporting daily anger, tears, frustrations, and hypersensitivity

👨‍👩‍👧 Target audience Parents, grandparents, family caregivers, and relatives of children with Down syndrome who wish to better understand their intense emotional reactions and acquire concrete tools to support them with serenity.

⏱️ Duration 2 to 3 hours of training divided into 5 progressive modules

💻 Format 100% online training, accessible from your computer or tablet. You progress at your own pace, whenever you wish, without time constraints.

What you will learn

This training allows you to understand why your child experiences their emotions with such intensity and how to help them gradually develop their emotional regulation skills. You will learn to identify the triggers of crises, recognize the warning signs to intervene in time, and implement appropriate visual tools and routines.

Through concrete explanations and immediately applicable strategies, you will discover how to transform difficult moments into opportunities for learning and bonding.

By the end of this training, you will be able to:

• Understand the neurological reasons for emotional intensity in children with Down syndrome (development of the prefrontal cortex, language delays, sensory hypersensitivity)
• Identify the 6 common triggers of crises: fatigue, unexpected events, misunderstandings, transitions, sensory overload, frustrations related to limitations
• Recognize the warning signs (physical, behavioral, vocal) to intervene before a crisis erupts
• Create appropriate visual supports: emotion cards, emotional thermometer, emotion wheel, pictograms, needs cards
• Build a simple emotional vocabulary with the 4 fundamental emotions and link them to bodily sensations
• Establish emotional release routines: calm corner, breathing techniques, physical releases, anger box
• Maintain a firm yet reassuring framework during a crisis: appropriate posture, calm voice, simple phrases
• Use calming techniques: breathing, repetitive movements, deep pressure, positive isolation
• Manage the post-crisis phase: recovery time, verbalization, reconstruction of the sequence, exploration of alternatives
• Value your child’s emotional efforts and celebrate small victories
• Create a predictable environment: visual schedules, transition rituals, stable spatial organization
• Anticipate difficult situations with social stories, a toolbox, and preparatory role-playing

You will leave with concrete tools and strategies that can be applied at home starting tonight.

Bonus: Discovery of the COCO THINKS and COCO MOVES application, specially designed for children with Down syndrome to stimulate their cognitive and emotional abilities.