Specialist Courses
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10 September 2010 Led by Sue Lewis Suitable for: Teachers of the Deaf who are new to peripatetic work, or who are returning to this role. £85 |
A curriculum, language and audiology update; negotiating and collaborating skills; helping schools to prioritise; training teaching assistants/delivering training packages to schools; monitoring progress; evaluating placements and inclusion. |
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24 September 2010 Led by Sue Lewis Suitable for: Teachers of the Deaf, Families, Teaching Assistants, £85 |
Early intervention and newborn hearing screening mean that teachers and families now have unprecedented opportunities for ensuring deaf children arrive at school with listening skills that are more finely tuned for classroom listening than ever before and really set them up for ‘listening to learn’. Many of the activities that we carry out with young deaf children are, however, more focused on hearing than listening.
This course aims to help participants think about and track a child’s move towards classroom listening skills and the sorts of activities that will promote appropriate behaviours. |
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11 October 2010 (Day one of two day course, 2nd day is 6 December) Led by Sue Lewis Suitable for: Head Teachers, SENCO's, Heads of Resource Bases/Units for deaf children £160 |
This two day course is designed for heads of resourced provision and others who have management responsibility for resourced provision within mainstream schools. It will focus on how they can gather and present data about outcomes, but also review the quality of provision in line with the new OFSTED framework. |
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28 January 2011 Led by: Sue Lewis Suitable for: Teachers of the Deaf, Speech & Language Therapists, mainstream teachers and SENCOs, parents/carers, Teaching Assistants and others working with deaf children 0 - 7 years. £85 |
Securing thinking skills and independent learning behaviour at EYFS and KS1. One of the challenges for those working with deaf children is ensuring that they are developing not only language and listening skills but learning behaviours that set them up well for the classroom and home environments. This course focuses on identifying what those behaviours might be and how teachers and teaching assistants can work with families and Early Years providers/schools so that children learn optimally and their language, listening and thinking skills move on. |
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4 February 2010 Led by Sue Lewis & Lynne Cook Suitable for: Teachers of the Deaf, Teaching Assistants SENCOs, mainstream teachers, parents/carers and others who work with deaf children and their families. £85 |
Almost all of those who work with deaf children and young people at any age identify support for personal growth and emotinoal development as being an important part of their role. The literature abounds with examples of the challenges to sooth, and healthy emotional growth for children of any disability and need. This course is designed to help teachers, parents and others plan proactively for supporting the emotional well being of children who have hearing difficulties, using ideas and materials suitable for usein mainstream and other contexts and linking into the SEAL programme. |
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7 February 2011 Led by Sue Lewis (Early Support Consultant, Trainer and Capacity Builder) Suitable for: Teachers of the Deaf, Speech & Language Therapists, Audiologists, Early Years practitioners, Health Visitors, parents/carers or any practitioner currently working with families of babies and young children who have a hearing loss. £85 |
The Early Support Monitoring Protocol for Deaf babies and Children has been used now in England for almost five years. There is a growing body of evidence as to its strengths and the most effective ways of introducing to families and of the ways in which families use it. This course will enable local authorities and others to train people locally to use the materials within Early Support principles and recommended practice. Participants attending must be committed to Early Support principles and have some experience of the Monitoring Protocol. |
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4 March 2011 Led by Sue Lewis Suitable for Teachers of the Deaf, Early Years providers, Early Years advisory teachers, Resrouce Base Managers, Heads of Service. £85 |
Demonstrating the child's learning journey and the difference that services and provision makes to that learning is an integral part of the new EYFS arrangements and inspection framework. This course will examine the sort of evidence that can be collected to demonstrate the child's learning both in areas of learning and in relation to the child's specialist needs. This includes how this might be benchmarked and how improvement targets might be set. |
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21-22 March 2011 (Day 1 can be taken as a one day course for £85) Led by Sue Lewis Suitable for Teachers of the Deaf and Speech & Language Therapists who work regularly with children who are deaf. £125 |
This course provides trainign for participants in the use of ACE, leading to skills in tracking and securing higher order language skills in children who are deaf. The aims are to:
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31 March - 1 April 2011 Led by Sue Lewis (approved NFER trainer) Suitable for: Teachers of the Deaf and Speech & Language Therapists who wish to use the scales with children who are deaf. £125 |
Completion of this course allows participants to use these scales and we will explore issues specific to using them with deaf children. The Reynell Development Language Scales is a closed test, but Teachers of the Deaf and Speech & Language Therapists may use it. porividing they attend this or a similar course. Sue Lewis is the only approved NFER trainer and specialises in its use with deaf children. |
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6 May 2011 Led by Sue Lewis Suitable for Teaching Assistants, voluntary workers and others who support families of very young deaf children £85
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This course provides participants with a sound foundation of understanding of the principles and practices that secure effective outcomes for babies and children in the Early Years Foundation Stage. Course content will include: working in partnership with families with families; practical directed support; understanding early development within the context of the EYFS framework and Monitoring Protocol for Deaf Babies and Children. |
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27 June 2011 Led by Sue Lewis Suitable for: Teachers of the Deaf in all settings, as well as mainstream Teachers, SENCOs, Teaching Assistants and Speech & Language Therapists who have responsibility for children with hearing loss. £85 |
This course is focused on strategies for promoting and monitoring the development of higher order and independent thinking and learning skills in deaf children at KS2, 3 and 4. It uses recent research, but also national strategies, to explore the ways in which those supporting deaf children can incorporate such strategies into their lessons and interations with the children to secure their learning optimally, including the encouragement of the voice of the child and of children taking responsibility for their own learning. |
