This is a snapshot of our popular workshop “AAC in Early Childhood Education – Supporting Children with little or no speech in Early Childhood Education K-2”.
DDWA runs this a few time each year for people who work in early childhood environments that want to set up for communication success for all children, including any child who may enrol who has a communication difficulty or complex communication needs (CCN).
Workshops like this aim to help Early Childhood Educators feel confident in supporting students with CCN, communication disability or communication difficulties to engage and participate with other children in all the varied activities of learning and play that make up their school day. Communication difficulties can include:
- a speech and language delay
- speech articulation difficulties
- childhood apraxia of speech
- developmental language disorder
- difficulty understanding and processing spoken English
- stuttering
- situational mutism
- young children learning English as a second language
- echolalia
- non-speaking children as a result of a developmental disability (for example Cerebral Palsy, Rett Syndrome, Angelman Syndrome, Down Syndrome, Autism)
- children learning to use their own Alternative or Augmentative Communication (AAC) tools such as a PODD book, AAC app on an iPad or an eye-gaze AAC device.
These workshops provide early childhood educators with resources, confidence and knowledge so that schools are better able to include, support and educate young children with communication and language difficulties – particular those who require support in learning to use their own AAC tools.
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