Parents and caregivers play a crucial role in supporting children’s speech, language and communication development. This workshop will provide advice around working with parents to support children to make progress.
In this workshop you will learn about the importance of vocabulary development, how children learn words , and learn about a structured whole – group approach to teaching vocabulary. Following this online?workshop you will?have the tools to?promote?different kinds of words and?know how to help children remember and learn them. You will learn how to apply this knowledge in play times and everyday routines.
Learn play based, person centred strategies to help people with severe learning difficulties or ASD to build the fundamental communication and social skills by mirroring and responding to their unique communication behaviours.
Support the development of joint attention skills in young autistic children within a small group.
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.
Understand the communication differences associated with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and how to support students within the classroom.
This training provides guidance for practitioners around developing an enabling learning environment for all learners.
This workshop will enable you to learn how to use Barrier Games as a Targeted Intervention.
In this workshop you will learn easy to implement strategies that you can use either in the classroom or in your planning that will support children with SLCN.
This workshop includes strategies and guidance on the following areas:
-Targeted & universal in class strategies
-The importance of using meaningful activities in learning experiences.
-Using visuals to aid understanding
-The importance of modelling in all curriculum areas
-Supporting children’s learning with writing frames and task planners
-How using mixed ability groups can support learning
-Creating independency and learning how to identify and ask for help
-Support and scaffolding around questioning
-Strategies to support sentence construction, vocabulary and literacy learning
-Providing emotional support
Learn about typical speech development, the features of speech sound disorders and strategies to support students.
Makaton Signing is keyword signing to support children's understanding and their ability to communicate. Learn approximately 40 signs to use in the classroom.
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.