Learn and grow: Collaborating with and empowering educators to improve communication outcomes in their classrooms (10.30-11.30am)
Tracks
Concurrent session T4
ADHD
Apraxia
Autism
Cognitive communication difficulties
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
Early childhood education
Early language
Early years education
Education
Expressive language
Grammar and syntax
Language disorder
Literacy
Narrative
Oral language
Phonological awareness (and phonemic awareness)
Pragmatic language
Project planning/management
Quality improvement
Reading comprehension
Receptive language
Research
School age
Semantics
Social communication
Specific learning disorders
Speech sound disorders
Vocabulary
Written language
| Tuesday, May 28, 2024 |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM |
| River View Room 04 |
Overview
Lauren Haskins
Details
⏫ Skill-building session
📚 Assumed knowledge of attendees: Intermediate (some previous learning/working knowledge of topic e.g. treated a few cases)
📚 Assumed knowledge of attendees: Intermediate (some previous learning/working knowledge of topic e.g. treated a few cases)
Presenter
Mrs Lauren Haskins
Owner/Practice Director
A Growing Understanding
Learn and grow: Collaborating with and empowering educators to improve communication outcomes in their classrooms
10:30 AM - 11:30 AMPresentation summary
The presentation outlines the importance of collaborating and empowering Educators to support communication outcomes in their busy, diverse classrooms. We identify the benefits of speech pathologists empowering Educators and discuss strategies for establishing and maintaining effective collaboration with Educators at all stages of our client’s journey – from exploring our Service values, to the Assessment Stage and then the Therapy/Maintenance Stage.
We explore the historical barriers to effective Educator collaboration and identify potential solutions to strengthen partnerships with schools to work smarter, not harder.
We discuss the ‘missing link’ that can impact Educators’ abilities to confidently and accurately identify and program for communication difficulties in their classroom. We discuss the benefits of an alternative model of working collaboratively with teachers to provide them with the resources, tools and training to confidently and effectively conduct speech and language screening assessments in education settings. We then introduce the 'Learn and Grow' programme- a collaborative training resource with a focus on empowering and training educators in children services to identify and support children with communication difficulties within their settings, and specifically the preschool setting, the lower primary sector (Early Stage One/Stage One) and the upper primary sectors (Stage 2/Stage 3).
We introduce the development of a hands on, multi-tiered program for speech pathologists to implement with daycare centres, preschools and schools to upskill teachers in identifying and programming for communication difficulties in the classroom.
We explore the historical barriers to effective Educator collaboration and identify potential solutions to strengthen partnerships with schools to work smarter, not harder.
We discuss the ‘missing link’ that can impact Educators’ abilities to confidently and accurately identify and program for communication difficulties in their classroom. We discuss the benefits of an alternative model of working collaboratively with teachers to provide them with the resources, tools and training to confidently and effectively conduct speech and language screening assessments in education settings. We then introduce the 'Learn and Grow' programme- a collaborative training resource with a focus on empowering and training educators in children services to identify and support children with communication difficulties within their settings, and specifically the preschool setting, the lower primary sector (Early Stage One/Stage One) and the upper primary sectors (Stage 2/Stage 3).
We introduce the development of a hands on, multi-tiered program for speech pathologists to implement with daycare centres, preschools and schools to upskill teachers in identifying and programming for communication difficulties in the classroom.
Key messages
Key message #1: Whilst Educators are ideally placed to identify and program for communication difficulties in their classrooms, they are currently missing the link between oral language and literacy skills.
Key message #2: Before Educator training can occur, effective collaboration must be established and maintained with the speech pathologist.
Key Message #3: The value of speech pathologists implementing an education program with teachers to upskill them in identifying and programming for students with communication difficulties in the classrooms.
Key message #2: Before Educator training can occur, effective collaboration must be established and maintained with the speech pathologist.
Key Message #3: The value of speech pathologists implementing an education program with teachers to upskill them in identifying and programming for students with communication difficulties in the classrooms.
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Lauren is the owner and practice director of A Growing Understanding Speech Pathology. She established this Newcastle based private practice in 2016 after an extensive career in the public health and not-for-profit sectors. Lauren’s mission is to provide an industry leading workplace for speech pathologists to grow their careers. Quality education, supervision and support with a fun and dynamic culture is consistently at the forefront of A Growing Understanding’s workplace in order to facilitate this purpose.
Lauren is an instructor for The Hanen Centre It Takes Two to Talk program, providing certification training to speech language pathologists around the world. She provides clinical and professional supervision to multiple speech pathologists (external to her team) and has been asked to supervise clinicians in response to matters heard by the SPA Ethics board.
Lauren established a further company called Let’s Grow Together in 2022. This business provides training (live and online) and resources to allied health professionals who work with children and families.
Session chair
Lucy Sutherland
Student volunteer(s)
Georgia Fitzgerald
Student
Curtin University
Michelle Spillman
Edith Cowan University
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