Early Educator Therapy Series

Supporting Language Development Through Play

A Study Day for Early Years Practitioners and parents who are interested in skilling up to support their child’s communication development.

Explore how play development and language link together.

How can we evaluate a child’s development in the Early Years? How can we facilitate language development through play?

This Interactive Study Day introduces accessible theory and how it can be used to structure language development in the early years. The ideas are equally applicable in home or educational settings.

This Workshop developed out of conversations with practitioners where it became clear that the theoretical underpinnings of language and play are not always covered in training and are of considerable interest to colleagues.

This Workshop brings together the foundation skills, play stages and language levels. For some this will be a refresher course and for others this will opportunity to explore theory and practical applications in supporting children with possible or diagnosed speech and language difficulties.

Who is it for?

The Study Day is of interest to SENCOs, Early Years Practitioners/Teachers, Early Years teachers.

Hanen Teacher Talk A: Encouraging Language Development in Early Childhood Settings

For Early Childhood Educators

Discover effective strategies to promote language development in young children. Learn from renowned experts in the field and gain valuable insights to enhance your teaching skills. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with fellow educators and exchange ideas. Register now and be part of this engaging virtual event!

This training addresses how educators can use everyday conversations, play and daily routines to promote the communication and social development of all children, including those with language delays and those who are second language learners.

Participants learn how to:

Identify children’s conversational styles and the role teachers play in interactions
Implement six steps to following the child’s lead: Observe, Wait and Listen, Be Face to Face, Imitate, Interpret, Comment, and Join in and Play
Help children become better conversation partners by using appropriate questions, comments and turn-taking cues
Use five important steps to ensure that no child is left out of the interaction during group activities

Hanen Teacher Talk B Let Language Lead the Way to Literacy

For Early Childhood Educators

This training will discuss the important links between oral language development and literacy, and provide you with practical strategies for paving the way for children to read and write.

You’ll learn how to encourage and support literacy development by:

Helping children develop a positive attitude toward the use of print
Choosing books that match children’s interests and stages of development
Using book reading as a time for interaction and conversation
Making print a natural and meaningful part of every day

Hanen Teacher Talk C Fostering Peer Interaction in Early Childhood Settings

For Early Childhood Educators

This training will show you how to provide a physical and social environment that encourages peer interaction and creates many opportunities or successful interactions with other children.

You’ll learn how to encourage and support peer interaction by:

Making the most effective use of space in the classroom
Encouraging a variety of groupings for interaction
Providing appropriate materials and activities
Creating reasons for interaction and providing specific coaching

Learning Language and Loving it

In any preschool classroom, the needs of children can be very diverse, and some can be much harder to engage and teach than others. This makes your job as an early childhood educator difficult when you’re trying to make sure that every child in your classroom is given the best possible opportunities for learning.

The Learning Language and Loving It Program was designed to provide early childhood educators with practical strategies for helping all children in the classroom build language and social skills, no matter what their learning and communication styles are, and even if they have special needs.

The Learning Language and Loving It Program provides you with practical, research-based strategies for:

Promoting every child’s language development using natural everyday activities, routines and play
Becoming attuned to children’s interests so you can follow their lead, which is known to foster language development
Adjusting the way you talk to help children develop more advanced language skills
Promoting interaction among the children themselves
Facilitating language-learning in pretend play
Fostering emergent literacy skills

Program components

A Hanen Certified speech-language therapist leads the program to a group of up to twenty educators;
5-8 intensive group training sessions (15-20 hours) in which you learn through a variety of media and by interacting with your fellow educators;
4-6 individual videotaping and feedback sessions for each educator (educators’ interactions with children are videotaped by and reviewed with the group leader); and
User-friendly resources to support your learning.

Dates and Booking for all Therapy Series courses

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