Training & Professional Development
Susie Hawke Speech Pathology offers both training and consultancy services.
Susie can deliver a range of Hanen Programs and develop or modify programs to specific needs/requests. Susie can also deliver Key Word Sign Basic Workshops.
Learning Language and Loving It
The Learning Language and Loving It Program was designed to provide early childhood educators with practical strategies for helping all children build language and social skills.
The program is delivered to a group of up to 20 educators and includes:
- 5-8 intensive group training sessions (15-20 hours)
- 4-6 individual videotaping and feedback sessions
- User-friendly resources to support your learning
Further information about Learning Language and Loving It can be found at:
www.hanen.org > Learning Language Loving It
Teacher Talk Training Series
The Teacher Talk Training Series is a flexible series of three 1-day trainings which provide early childhood educators with core strategies from the Learning Language and Loving It Program, helping educators create rich and stimulating language-learning environments for young children.
Teacher Talk is divided into three full-day training sessions:
- Training A: Encouraging Language Development in Early Childhood Settings
- Training B: Let Language Lead the Way to Literacy
- Training C: Fostering Peer Interaction in Early Childhood Settings
Further information about the Teacher Talk series can be found at:
www.hanen.org > Teacher Talk Training Series
ABC and Beyond
ABC and Beyond is designed to help educators of preschool children (ages 3-5) promote emergent literacy skills that all children need to learn to successfully read and write.
Participants learn the most effective ways to promote the following six building block of literacy:
- Oral language
- Vocabulary
- Story comprehension
- Language of learning
- Print knowledge
- Phonological awareness
The program is delivered to a group of up to twenty educators and includes:
- 7 interactive and engaging training sessions
- 3 individual coaching, videotaping and feedback sessions
- User-friendly resources to support learning
ABC and Beyond modules can be delivered when a full program is not possible due to time constraints, funding constraints, participant commitment or participant prior learning. Several options for modules are available ranging from 1 to 6 group sessions with 1 to 3 video feedback sessions.
Further information about ABC and Beyond can be found at:
www.hanen.org > ABC and Beyond
Sharing Sensitive News
Often, early childhood educators are the first to identify concerns about a child’s speech and language development. However, educators are often unsure how to broach their concerns with parents.
This ‘4P’ Teaching-Learning cycle is designed to prepare early childhood educators to effectively share concerns about a child’s speech and language development with parents.
This workshop can be delivered to a group of up to 20 educators in a 2 to 3 hour presentation.
Key Word Sign – Basic Workshop
Key Word Sign (KWS) is used to encourage and support language development in children and adults with communication difficulties.
This Basic Workshop will get you started using Key Word Sign (KWS).
You will learn a vocabulary of approximately 80 signs and understand more about how to use KWS. The training can be completed in a 1-day workshop, or be done over 2 or more sessions.
Further information about Key Word Sign can be found at:
kwsa.com.au > Training