- What is Language Disorder?
Language Disorder impacts a child’s ability to understand and use language.
Language Disorder is a neurodevelopmental disability that impacts a child’s ability to understand and use language. It impacts children and young people’s everyday social interactions and education.
What is Language Disorder? - School Support Services
Every child deserves the chance to succeed at school.
Getting a good start in school provides the foundation for a child’s learning and development for the rest of their lives.
School Support Services
Upcoming Webinar: Reading Comprehension
Upcoming webinar on 1 May 2024 – 3:30pm (AEST)
Tracey Huttley (Inclusion – Specialist Educator) and Athena Panagopoulos (Senior Speech Language Pathologist) will present the webinar Reading Comprehension. The key learning objectives of this webinar will be:
- Understanding Language Disorder (LD) and the impacts on literacy development
- How do we learn to read? Thinking about word decoding and language comprehension
- Frameworks behind effective reading instruction (Science of Reading)
- Strategies to support language comprehension in the classroom
We strongly recommend watching Language Disorder Australia’s previous webinar Understanding and Supporting Students with Reading Difficulties as a precursor to this webinar.
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Toowong, QLD, 4066, Brisbane
