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This training provides guidance for practitioners around developing an enabling learning environment for all learners.

This workshop provides guidance on Universal ‘whole-class’ strategies for teaching vocabulary. You will also learn how to set up a Targeted Intervention for pre-teaching vocabulary.

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

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 course will support your understanding of the common communication differences in Down Syndrome and explore the differences in learning style. The course will also provide some ideas of how you can support children with DS in your setting. 

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.

Join this workshop to learn more about delivering a ‘Playing with Words’ group to support children to learn and use everyday vocabulary.

This training supports practitioners to recognise the different ways we can communicate and provides strategies to enable communication in all of its forms within our settings.

This workshop focuses on developing positive interactions between practitioners and children with communication differences .

Join this workshop to learn more about supporting children with SLCN to express themselves during break and lunch times.

Find out what children with SLCN find difficult in maths and strategies to help them to solve word problems and to learn relevant vocabulary.   

Gain an understanding of the differences between bilingualism and SLCN and how you can support children within the classroom.   

This workshop will introduce a technique for following a child’s lead within a small group structure and for developing practitioners’ skills in talking with children. The approach allows practitioners to interact in a playful way using a variety of media (actions, objects, pens, and paper) which can develop a range of communication and PSE skills.

This session is an introduction to strategies used with EAL pupils and how to monitor progress with language acquisition.

In this workshop you will learn universal strategies that will promote the development of oracy in the classroom from Reception to Year 6.

In this workshop you will learn how you can support the class teacher to implement universal strategies that will promote the development of oracy in the classroom from Reception to Year 6.

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 set up and run Lego therapy groups to support the communication skills of students with SLCN. 

This workshop will provide Secondary educators with a brief introduction to speech, language and communication needs in the Secondary age-range and 10 Top Tips for making the classroom inclusive and enabling for young people with speech, language and communication needs.

This bitesize workshop provides a 30 minute introduction to our Targeted Vocabulary: ‘Word Detectives and Word Collectors’ intervention for Upper KS2 and Secondary pupils. Join this workshop to find out more about the intervention, who would benefit and what it involves.

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.