Social Communication and Interaction - Understanding & Support

This workshop aims to give an overview of the areas of social communication, and how to identify a child’s needs. It introduces verbal and visual communication strategies and direct interventions that can be used to support children with social communication needs. It briefly introduces Blank Levels of language and key strategies to support children to understand higher level, more abstract language.

Aims:

• Develop an understanding of social communication needs

• Understand typical development of social communication

• Be aware of the impact of Social Communication Difficulties (SCD)

• Be aware of key strategies to aid understanding of language

• Identify practical ideas and strategies to support children with SCD

• Next steps and when / how to access support from Speech and Language Therapy

Ideal for:

Teachers and education support staff in Foundation stage, Key Stage 1, and Key Stage 2 settings who support children with social communication needs.

Please note: This course will be run as an online training session via Microsoft Teams. When you book, you will receive information about how to access the training and how the session will be run., this will be sent from email: [email protected], the invite will also be sent from this email.

Please note that our training courses and workshops are designed to be interactive, to ensure participants get the most from the session. With this in mind, we ask that you check to ensure that both your camera and microphone are working prior to the course.

Please note each person attending the training needs to purchase an individual ticket. Several participants may join the training from the same device but each participant must have purchased an individual ticket. Additional participants who have not bought a ticket are not allowed to sit and watch the training, either in or out of the camera view. Additional participants in the room, who have not purchased a ticket, will be asked to leave.

If you have any questions about the content of this course or how it will be run online, please contact the training admin team on 01138433608

Host or Publisher Childrens Speech and Language Therapy