TRAINING

Paula Vickerstaff has extensive experience running engaging and practical workshops/ professional development sessions for parents, teachers, learning support staff, and educators in many areas. Please contact Paula directly if you are interested in her coming to your setting at paula@voicesandminds.com.au.

Here are some of the more recent training sessions she has delivered:

For Parents and Carers

• What to expect? – Outlining expected speech and language development.
• Helping my child talk – Strategies to support communication with children (babies, toddlers, young children).
• Baby/Toddler Sign – Using Key Word Sign to help my child talk.
• Books, Books, Books – The wonderful benefits of book reading with your child.
• Early Literacy Skills – Helping my child to read.

Schools, Childcare and OSHC Centres

• Implementing Key Word Sign into Childcare Centres.
• Expected communication development and strategies to support children’s communication.
• Impact of communication difficulties in the classroom and how to help.
• Words, Words, Words – Effectively targeting vocabulary in the classroom.
• Who am I? – Understanding and effectively supporting students with ASD, ADHD, Language Disorder and ID in the school setting.