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.
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.
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.
Learn how to write stories to support social understanding. Writing these stories supports students to know what to expect within a social situation.
Makaton Signing is keyword signing to support children's understanding and their ability to communicate. Learn approximately 40 signs to use in the classroom.
This workshop focuses on developing positive interactions between practitioners and children with communication differences .
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 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.
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.