- 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
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Getting a good start in school provides the foundation for a child’s learning and development for the rest of their lives.
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Upcoming Webinars
Using Effective Communication in the Classroom
Thursday, 20 April at 3:30pm – 5:00pm AEST
Speech Language Pathologists Jessica Casale and Lyndsay Miller will present the webinar Using Effective Communication in the Classroom.
This webinar will be beneficial for educators within both primary and high school settings. Throughout this webinar we will provide strategies to support students with both receptive and expressive language difficulties and discuss how these strategies can be implemented in the classroom to support a students learning.
Executive Function Skills
Wednesday, 03 May at 3:30pm – 4:30pm AEST
Edwina Crowe (Inclusion-Specialist Educator) and Emma Reid (Occupational Therapist) will present the webinar Executive Function Skills.
Executive function skills are a group of interrelated cognitive skills which are critical for both school and personal success. These skills help us to focus, hold, and work with information in mind, filter distractions, switch between activities, work towards future goals, organise information and regulate our emotions and behaviours. Because humans are born with brains that are not fully developed, children are not born with these skills but they have the potential to develop them. Some students do not develop executive function skills to the same degree as their peers and for those with deficits, additional support in the classroom is necessary to improve their development. In this webinar, attendees can look forward to learning about executive functioning and executive function difficulties, how to identify executive function difficulties in the classroom, adjustments and strategies to support students in developing executive function skills in the classroom and how to apply strategies learned throughout the webinar.
Past Webinars
Understanding and Supporting Students with Reading Difficulties
Thursday, 23 February at 3:30pm – 4:30pm AEST
Sheri Adams (Specialist Educator) and Athena Panagopoulos (Senior Speech Pathologist) will present the webinar Understanding and Supporting Students with Reading Difficulties. The learning objectives include:
- Understanding Language Disorder (LD) and the impacts on literacy development
- The complexities of learning to read
- The 6 key components of effective, evidence-based reading instruction
- The presentation of reading difficulties
- Classroom strategies
Resilience and Task Perseverance
12 October 2022
Provisional Psychologist April Carroll and Occupational Therapist Emma Reid covered the following topics:
- The importance of resilience and task perseverance for academic success
- How to identify low resilience and task perseverance in the classroom
- Further strategies to build emotional regulation skills and risk-taking in the classroom
- Discussing and unpacking a case study to apply strategies learned throughout webinar
Transitioning to High School
16 August 2022
Inclusion-specialist educator Edwina Crowe and occupational therapist Karen Gibson covered the following topics:
- What is a transition?
- What impact does transitioning have on students?
- What makes a successful transition to high school?
- Strategies to support a successful transition to high school.
Sentence Structure
3 August 2022
Senior Speech Pathologists Athena Panagapoulos and Elizabeth Lorraway covered the following topics:
- What is sentence structure?
- The importance of verbal sentence structure as a precursor to written sentence structure
- Strategies to increase sentence length, complexity and the variety of word classes used
Supporting EAL/D Students
20 July 2022
Senior Speech Pathologists Athena Panagapoulos and Elizabeth Lorraway covered the following topics:
- Who are our EALD students?
- What are some considerations around EALD communication?
- Strategies to support EALD students including those with Language Disorder in the classroom
Building Self-Esteem and Confidence
18 May 2022
Presenters
Psychologist April Quezada and Speech Pathologist Elizabeth Lorraway covered the following topics:
- How self-esteem and confidence impact engagement in the curriculum.
- The relationship between Language Disorder and reduced confidence/self-esteem.
- How to identify low self-esteem and confidence in students.
- Strategies for supporting students’ confidence and self-esteem in the classroom.
Multi-Modal Communication
11 May 2022
Presenters
Speech Pathologists Jessica Casale and Lyndsay Miller covered the following topics:
- Develop an understanding of multi-modal communication
- Highlight the benefits and common misconceptions of using multi-modal communication.
- Discuss a range of multi-modal communication approaches.
- Provide practical strategies for integrating and supporting multi-modal communication in the classroom.
Fine Motor Skill Development
4 May 2022
Presenters
Senior Physiotherapist Megan Simmonds and Senior Occupational Therapist Elyce Mitchell covered the following topics:
- The importance of fine motor skills in the classroom
- The link between fine motor skills and learning
- How to identify difficulties
- Fun and effective fine motor strategies for the classroom
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