Events

Learn how to support students to code their sentences using shapes to support their expressive language skills and how to implement the strategy within classroom practice.   

Learn about typical speech development, the features of speech sound disorders and strategies to support students.   

Understand the communication differences associated with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and how to support students within the classroom. 

Learn how to support students to problem-solve through drawing. This approach enables students to reflect on real life social situations and better understand why a series of events occurred. 

Helicopter Stories is a powerful, evidence-based technique for developing children’s confidence, curiosity, creativity, and communication skills.
This workshop will introduce this technique in which children dictate their stories to an adult and later the same session or day the children act out their stories from their place round the circle, with no props. In the session you will learn how to run effective Helicopter Stories sessions which have been proven by the Open University to develop confidence and communication skills in children aged 2-5. ?

Learn how to support students to label and express their feelings by linking what they feel inside their body to the emotion vocabulary.   

Learn how to facilitate the ‘Language for Behaviour and Emotions’ intervention to support students to use their words to solve social interaction difficulties.  
***Delegates will be required to purchase the book prior to attending the course.

Build upon your prior knowledge of Makaton and learn 40 additional signs to use in the classroom.    
** ‘Introduction to Makaton’ is a prerequisite course

Understand the communication differences associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and how to support students within the classroom. 

Learn how to support pupils to use visualisation as a strategy for understanding oral and written language, to aid recall and support prediction and inference.   

Learn how we can incorporate a total communication approach into the classroom, including use of Makaton signs, visuals, written words, objects, photographs, pictures and body language to support students understanding and their ability to express themselves.     

Understand the features of the common, but often hidden condition Developmental Language Disorder and how support students access the curriculum.