Online Training Programmes

Janet O’Keefe is an online facilitator/associate tutor for the eLearning Speech Language and Communication Needs Course aimed at teachers, teaching assistants, specialist advisory and support staff, health professionals and parents. Janet acts as a mentor and coach online and via Skype to support the transfer of learning.

Speech, Language & Communication Needs Course

The course aims to:

• raise awareness of the incidence of difficulties in speech, language and communication
• provide a description of how language develops
• emphasise the impact of the language environment
• raise awareness of the range of difficulties that learners may experience
• raise awareness of the impact of these on both access to the curriculum and inclusion in the social environment
• describe informal assessments that can be easily carried out
• outline a range of strategies to help learners with SLCN

In person training sessions can also be provided on request in the UK.