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What is Cued Articulation?

Cued Articulation is a popular visual signing system used to help Foundation to Grade 2 students learn speech sounds and to support their speaking and literacy skills. It focuses attention on how the mouth makes sounds and can help students hear the differences between speech sounds.

The system is often used by teachers as part of a whole class literacy strategy. It is also used by teachers and Education Support Officers to support students with English as an Additional Language. E.A.L. students can often have difficulties with the English language sound system and Cued Articulation can help students both see and hear sound differences. Students with speech sound difficulties can also benefit from the visual reminders to use correct sounds.

Course Aim

Cued Articulation in the Classroom will provide attendees with the knowledge and skills required to use Cued Articulation with students.

Course Outline

• How key literacy skills develop
• An overview of Cued Articulation
• An understanding of mouth structures and how sounds are produced
• Visual signs for consonant and vowel sounds
• Discussion and demonstration of the use of signs to:
      Promote correct use of speech sounds
      Link sounds to letters
      Hear first, middle and final sounds in words
      Segment words into sounds
      Promote use of grammar structures (e.g. plurals, pronouns)
• Practice in the use of Cued Articulation for classroom activities

Course Designed For

Teachers and Education Support Officers

Duration

One day or three after-school sessions

Booking

Currently scheduled courses can be booked online via our online booking system. If you can not find a suitable course on the online system, please contact us. Many of our courses are scheduled based on demand.

Training is delivered at host schools around Melbourne or at your school. Discounts are available for schools who host our training sessions, so please contact us if you can provide a venue.

Language provides the foundation for learning in the classroom. One in five children enter school without the necessary language skills needed for successful learning. Early identification of students with language difficulties will help teachers plan for and support students effectively in the classroom.

Course Aim

This course will provide teachers will specific information and guidelines for identifying those students in their class who may be experiencing difficulties using language to learn. A range of practical support strategies and learning techniques that teachers can use in the classroom will be discussed.

Course Outline

• An overview of language skills required for classroom learning
• What is a language disorder?
• Using classroom assessments and a language checklist to identify students
• Teaching strategies to support the specific needs of students with language disorders
• Assistive technology for support

Course Designed For

Teachers and Education Support Officers

Duration

Two hours.

Booking

Currently scheduled courses can be booked online via our online booking system. If you can not find a suitable course on the online system, please contact us. Many of our courses are scheduled based on demand.

Training is delivered at schools around Melbourne or at your school. Discounts are available for schools who host our training sessions, so please contact us if you can provide a venue.

Children with autism or language and learning difficulties can often experience confusion and frustration in social situations. Social Stories, first developed by Carol Gray in 1994, provides an approach to teach children about their social world.

Social stories provide children with clear information about specific social situations, outlining why they happen and what typical responses might be. By making this information explicit, social stories explain what other children learn incidentally from the messages embedded in social situations.

Social stories can be used for any age group and are most effective when the child’s support structure (parents, teacher, education support officer, principal) are involved with the implementation and monitoring of social stories.

The focus of social stories may include:

• Limiting obsessional behaviour that intrudes into learning time
• Managing potentially dangerous behaviour in the classroom and playground
• Self-help skills e.g. toileting, using a tissue
• Developing friendships
• Supporting transitions e.g. moving to a new class
• Developing positive self-esteem

Course Aim

Social Stories for Success provides the detailed instruction and demonstration required to successfully write and implement social stories.

Course Outline

• Why children have social skill difficulties.
• The structure for writing social stories.
• Implementing social stories effectively and monitoring student progress.
• Examples of a range of social stories in different formats.

Course Designed For

Teachers, Education Support Officers and parents.

Duration

Three hours.

Booking

Currently scheduled courses can be booked online via our online booking system. If you can not find a suitable course on the online system, please contact us. Many of our courses are scheduled based on demand.

Training can be delivered at Versalearn in Narre Warren, Melbourne or at your school. Discounts are available for schools who host our training sessions, so please contact us if you can provide a venue.

Booking Terms and Conditions

1. VersaLearn reserves the right to cancel an event if minimum numbers are not met; in this instance a full refund or transfer of money to another event of the same value is available.
2. Workshop registration is only confirmed when full payment has been received from the participant.
3. If a participant chooses to cancel their confirmed registration, or cannot or does not attend the workshop, the following conditions will apply:
   • The registered participant may invite another person to substitute their place in the workshop (in which they are registered) giving at least 1 working day notice to VersaLearn at no charge.
   • If notice is received 7 working days or less from the scheduled starting date, no refund will be offered.
   • If notice is received 8 working days or more from the scheduled starting date, a 50% refund will be offered