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TRAINING
For School Districts
Other Workshop and Course Topics
3. Communication
3A. Basic Strategies for Supporting the Communication of Students with Severe Disabilities in Inclusive Settings
This one-day workshop is intended as an introduction to communication for students with severe disabilities whose speech does not meet their daily communication needs. The workshop begins with information about how people communicate and the purposes of communication. The relationship between communication and challenging behaviour is explained, and the basic elements of augmentative communication are reviewed. Participants are provided with several strategies for basic communication assessment. Emphasis is placed on strategies for identifying choicemaking opportunities, designing choicemaking systems, and teaching students to make choices.
Target Audience: general and special education teachers, educational assistants, support personnel, parents/guardians
Cost: $1,500 plus travel expenses
For more information, please contact Paul Malette at (604) 921-1670 or at info@cbiconsultants.com
3B. Advanced Strategies for Supporting the Communication of Students with Severe Disabilities in Inclusive Settings
This one-day workshop builds on the content of Workshop 3A by providing a variety of specific communication strategies that do not require the use of electronic devices and that can be implemented in school settings. Such strategies include scripted routines, gesture dictionaries, schedule boxes/books, remnant books, conversation books, choice displays, single message cassette tapes strategies, and others. Slides and videotapes are used to teach participants when and how to implement these strategies with individual students.
Target Audience: general and special education teachers, educational assistants, support personnel, parents/guardians
Cost: $1,500 plus travel expenses
For more information, please contact Paul Malette at (604) 921-1670 or at info@cbiconsultants.com
3C. The Participation Model: A Process for Designing Augmentative Communication Interventions
This one-day workshop provides a theoretical and practical model that can be used within a school district to design and monitor communication interventions for student with severe disabilities. The model includes assessment of communication and participation needs, opportunity barriers, and access barriers. It provides a way for resource teams to build communication interventions to meet student needs both currently and in the future. Discussion of systemic constraints and issues related to the provision of communication services is also included. The process is illustrated with a longitudinal case example of a child with multiple disabilities.
Target Audience: speech-language pathologists, administrators, physical and occupational therapists, resource personnel
Cost: $1,500 plus travel expenses
For more information, please contact Paul Malette at (604) 921-1670 or at info@cbiconsultants.com
