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 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.
Build upon your prior knowledge of Makaton and learn 40 additional signs to use in the classroom.
** ‘Introduction to Makaton’ is a prerequisite course
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.
Join this workshop to learn more about delivering a ‘Playing with Words’ group to support children to learn and use everyday vocabulary.
This course will support your understanding of how some children use echolalia to communicate and learn language. It will highlight key characteristics that indicate when a child is using echolalia meaningfully and will share strategies to support children to use language functionally across settings.
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.
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 about typical speech development, the features of speech sound disorders and strategies to support students.
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
