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.
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Talk Together Listening Foundations
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.
Confident Kids 4-5 years
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.
School Transitions: Supporting Students with Hearing Loss to feel Safe and Connected
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.
Building Resilience for Students with Hearing Loss
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.
Navigating Friendships for Students with Hearing Loss
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.
101 Ideas to Climb the Listening & Spoken Language Ladder for Children with Hearing Loss
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.
Confident Kids: Enhancing Social Skills in Children with Hearing Loss
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.
Leap into Literacy for Children with Hearing Loss
Literacy skills are fundamental for formal education and are crucial for success across a lifespan. Literacy learning requires a systematic well designed instructional approach, and children with hearing loss highly benefit from specific strategies to support and address their unique learning needs.
Engineering Executive Function for Children with Hearing Loss
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 Functional Listening Index-Paediatric (FLI-P®) – Monitoring Listening Skills for Positive Progress
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-P™) – a new research based tool designed to assist the tracking and monitoring of a child’s listening skills in everyday life scenarios.
Interactive Online Services (Telehealth) for Children and Students with Hearing Loss
The Shepherd Centre has been providing hearing loss intervention via telehealth for many years. This course provides information and strategies that can be implemented to best support learning and development for children and students with hearing loss accessing services via this mode.
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