The Complete Advantage

Professional Learning

Our professional development workshops for Teachers, Education Assistants and learning support staff are specifically designed to create supportive and inclusive learning environments for children. The workshops are written and presented by our multidisciplinary therapy team including Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists and Psychologists. All workshops are created with schools in mind. Strategies presented are practical and easy to implement in classrooms on a day to day basis. Professional Development Workshops available to schools in 2010 include:

Social Skills

1. Social Skills for Junior Primary Students
2. Writing Social Stories
3. Behaviour Management for Challenging Children

Autism

1. Social Skills for Children with Autism(full day workshop)
2. An Introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorders
3. Sensory Processing for Children with

Occupational Therapy

1. Helping Hands: Fine Motor Skills
2. Make Sense of Sensory Processing

Speech, Language & Communication

1. Speech and Language Jigsaw
2. Clear Speech Strategies
3. Language Support for ESL Students
4. Ideas for Speech and Language Groups (for Education Assistants)
5. Successful Stories - Oral Narrative
6. Successful Stories - Written Narrative
7. Understanding Language - Listen and Understand
8. Understanding Language - Read and Understand
9. Vocabulary Vitals
10. An Introduction to Total Communication

Literacy

1. Literacy Beginnings - Phonological Awareness Basics
2. Literacy Beginnings - Phonological Awareness; What Comes Next?