2019
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November
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RSVP due for 2020 Derbyshire Language Scheme Workshop
The Derbyshire Language Scheme (DLS) is a language and communication program with linked assessment. This developmentally structured early intervention program facilitates social development and interaction through play-based learning. Linked progress record facilitates data collection and individualised programming. The DLS is designed for individual & group therapy, teaching language through everyday experiences and interactions in familiar contexts. It comprises ‘structured teaching to objectives’ or a checklist of language objectives with all teaching and assessment in free play, or a combination of both. It is extensively used in the UK (ref. The Better Start Communication Project, Law, Roulstone et al., 2012) and increasingly popular in Australia for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Dyspraxia, Developmental Language Disorder, Developmental Delays, Hearing Impairment and those learning English as a Second Language. It can be used alongside other developmental approaches, eg Applied Behavioural Analysis, Blades, PECS, DIR Floortime , Sign/ AAC.
Dates: Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th January,2020
Time: 8.30 to 4.30pm each day
Venue: To Be Confirmed at QUEST BREAKFAST CREEK, Brisbane,Queensland.
Catering and all official handouts. Additional cost for DLS Assessment, Manuals and Test forms
Registration: By 1 November, 2019.
Event Contact: Sue Park
Email:langlearnsteps@optusnet.com.au
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ICDL DIR Floortime Workshop
D.I.R Floortime is an intervention that is used to promote an individual’s development through a respectful, playful, joyful, and engaging process. It uses the power of relationships and human connections to promote engagement, communication, positive behaviours, and thinking. It is based on the DIR model that was developed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan and his colleagues. Tilegne Therapy is proud to be welcoming the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) for the first time to Melbourne to run a 2-day D.I.R Floortime workshop in November 7- 8 2019. It will be led by the CEO of ICDL, Mr.
Jeffrey Guenzel, who will be assisted by his deputy director, Ms Katya Sidor. This workshop is valuable for: Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Early Childhood Educators Teachers, Social Workers, Psychologists and Early Intervention Workers that care for children, adolescents and adults (with a strong focus on individuals on the spectrum).
Event Contact: Louisa Ong
Email: info@tilegnetherapy.com.au
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Advanced Stroboscopy Workshop for ENTs & Speech Pathologists
This workshop addresses clinical assessment for diagnosis and contemporary management of organic voice disorders.
- Key laryngeal physiology
- Advanced laryngeal assessment - practical stations
- Diagnosis and management of mucosal lesions, glottal insufficiency, voice dysfunction in neurological disorders, laryngeal neoplasms and laryngeal inflammation
- Special Considerations and populations
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Laryngology Society of Australasia Medico Legal Matters
This informative, dynamic & interactive day will tackle the complex issues surrounding recovery at work and medico legal considerations for occupational and professional voice users.Utilising experts in the field, the study day aims to stimulate insightful discussion, sharing of opinions and practical tips, through panel and audience discussion.
Event Contact: Danielle Stone
Email: danielle.stone@health.nsw.gov.au
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Talk For Writing Workshop, Newcastle
This two-day professional development workshop offers an overview of the Talk 4 Writing approach and provides opportunities for hands-on participation in this exceptionally effective instructional approach for teaching written expression.
The workshop addresses the use of Talk 4 Writing for both fiction and non-fiction and covers:
Planning: based on instructional needs of students at either a unit or whole-school level;
The “Three I’s” – Imitation, Innovation and Invention – The fundamentals of the Talk 4 Writing approach, by guiding students in a systematic, scaffolded way they develop their writing from dependence to independence.
Student skill development is promoted through effective feedback;
Accurate assessment of writing, assists in track students’ progress and guides teaching goals; and
Development of grammatical skills, with a focus on functional application of grammar in writing, through ‘warm-up’ games selected to meet specific instructional needs of students.
WHEN:
14 and 15 November 2019
WHERE: Newcastle, Apollo International Hotel
Event Contact: Nadine Holliday
Email: events@speldnsw.org.au
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October
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Supporting Children's Language Skills Through Narrative
Presented by Tania Blunden from Words to Grow and hosted by To the Moon & Back.
This workshop is designed to assist Speech Pathologists and Educators in teaching narrative structure to their students through hands-on participation, small group interactions, guided practise and modelling. Participants will learn how to use MindWing Concepts, Inc tools and techniques including the Story Grammar Marker® (SGM®) and Braidy the Story Braid® Puppet to develop literate oral language in therapy sessions and in the classroom. This interactive, multisensory approach can be used with a diverse range of learners including children with developmental language disorder, English language learners and children with autism spectrum disorders.
Event Contact: Kristin Bayley
Email: info@tothemoonandback.net.au
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Hanen’s It Takes Two to Talk® Workshop
Join us in Penrith (Sydney), NSW on October 14-16 for the It Takes Two To Talk® Hanen certification workshop. This interactive and hands-on 3-day workshop offers effective and research-based strategies for involving parents in early intervention process that ensure best possible outcomes for young children and their families!
Event Contact: Tianna Noble
Email: tianna.noble@hanen.org
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ATAAC Conference 2019
The 2019 Assistive Technology and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ATAAC) Conference on advanced technology for people with disabilities will be held from October 15 to October 17, in Zagreb, Croatia.
ATAAC is the fastest growing conference of it's kind.
ATAAC will include keynote speakers from all around the world, like John Costello, an SLP who works in Boston Children's Hospital, who will be speaking about benefits of using the AT and AAC.
The conference will also include AT and AAC playground, poster presentations, workshops and expo.
The conference will be streamed online and is available free of cost for professors and their students working in these and related fields, for all three days, as well as SEN Teachers, OT/SLP/AAC/AT practitioners cooperating with non-profits. The program will be accessible for 14 days so it can be watched at one's own pace.
For details on the program and speakers, please visit: https://ataac.eu/program/
This conference hopes to spread the word about the benefits of AT and AAC in the world.
Event Contact: Kresimir Persa
Email: kresimir.persa@ataac.eu
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Key Word Sign Australia (Victoria) 1 day Basic workshop in Vermont South
Key Word Sign Australia (Victoria) Workshop - Vermont South
The one day introduction to Key Word Sign workshop includes:
• An interactive teaching environment;
• Learning a basic vocabulary of signs to use in everyday settings;
• How to choose which signs to teach;
• Principles of Key Word Sign and Gesture;
• How sign helps communication development.
Every participant in a Victorian Calendar Key Word Sign workshop gets the current edition of Getting started with Key Word Sign
(Auslan Edition)
Open to professionals, parents and families, support staff and anyone else in a person life.
We are NDIS registered
Event Contact: Zita Canning
Email: training@keywordsignvictoria.org
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