- 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 webinars
Transitioning to High School
Tuesday 16/08/2022 3:30-4:30 pm (UTC+10:00) Brisbane
Presented by Edwina Crowe and Karen Gibson
In this webinar, inclusion-specialist educator Edwina Crowe and occupational therapist Karen Gibson will be discussing transitioning to high school.
A transition can be as simple as moving from home to school or from work to shopping. A transition can also be a time where we make a significant move from one stage of our life to another and deal with the resulting changes. As adults we have many experiences to draw upon that enable us to quickly adapt and cope with the changes that come with the transition. Students do not necessarily have the ability to adapt and cope with the changes that transitioning to high school brings therefore in this webinar we will look at:
- 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.
Past Webinars
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
Head office
Level 3, 88 Jephson Street,
Toowong, QLD, 4066, Brisbane
