This workshop provides advice and guidance on supporting children with SLCN to develop oral storytelling and narrative skills. You will learn about Universal ‘whole-class’ approaches, as well as how to set up a Targeted ‘Storytelling and Narrative’ intervention group.
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.
This workshop will enable you to learn how to use Barrier Games as a Targeted Intervention.
Support the development of joint attention skills in young autistic children within a small group.
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.
Learn how to set up and run Lego therapy groups to support the communication skills of students with SLCN.
Learn how to facilitate the ‘Language for Thinking’ intervention to support the verbal reasoning skills of students with SLCN.
***Delegates will be required to purchase the book prior to attending the 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.
Support the development of joint attention skills in young autistic children within a small group.
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 conversation skills within an everyday context within a primary setting.