Join us for an exciting workshop day focused on two topic areas in the field of hearing loss. Music for Children and Adolescents with Hearing Loss and The Functional Listening Index-Paediatric®(FLI-P®)
– Monitoring Listening Skills for Positive Progress
Facilitated by Dr Chi Yhun Lo, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation and an Adjunct Fellow at Macquarie University. Chi has consulted with Cochlear Limited on a number of music-based applications such as “Bring Back the Beat”.
This course explores the impact of hearing loss on learning in a preschool or classroom environment and provides practical strategies to best support student learning and engagement.
Functional listening skills underpin language, literacy, communication development and social competence. How can we closely track functional auditory skill development from infancy? This course focuses on the understanding and use of the Functional Listening Index – Paediatric (FLI-®) – a new research based tool designed to assist the tracking and monitoring of a child’s listening skills in everyday life scenarios.
Executive function is used to help us plan, learn, attend, self-regulate and manage in everyday situations. This course will explore current research and implications for intervention in regards to executive function for children with hearing loss.
The Talk Together series of courses is for families of children newly diagnosed with hearing loss. In the introductory Listening Foundations program, caregivers are empowered to make informed decisions about their child’s listening and speaking journey through knowledge-sharing and connecting with other parents.
The Confident Kids series empowers children with hearing loss to navigate different social environments by teaching them practical strategies for building healthy relationships. Aimed at children between 4-5 years of age, it comes equipped with a parent education component to help caregivers support their children in everyday life.
This course focuses on school transitions for students with hearing loss; from preschool to primary school, primary school to high school, and from year group to year group. It explores the impact of hearing loss within a school environment and provides practical strategies to best support student learning and engagement.
This course focuses resilience for students with hearing loss and the benefit of resilience as a lifelong skill. It explores self-identity and provides strategies to help students with hearing loss manage setbacks and develop skills for positive self-growth.
This course focuses on the role of friendships on social wellbeing and the impact of hearing loss on communication and social development. It provides strategies for teachers and educators to help support students in navigating friendships.
For children with hearing loss, the development of listening and spoken communication skills requires close monitoring and purposeful support across a range of developmental domains. This course explores a range of strategies and activities to enhance skill development to achieve optimal outcomes.
Social skills are an important part of everyday communication. They support the ability to function within society and are important for building and maintaining relationships across a lifespan. This course delves deeper into the importance of social skills for children with hearing loss, with practical strategies for enhancing these from infancy to school age.
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