SKILLS Receptive Language CPD & Parent Course 
Effective Methods to Teach Receptive Language to SEN Learners 0-22 years of age

Individuals with autism and an intellectual delay often present with complex communication difficulties. The use
of multi-modal and individualised communication supports are often used to understand speech and develop and extend their communication abilities across a range of learning.  Understanding how individuals with autism learn language and process information is critical in the design and implementation of communication supports, including Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC).

This online course called How to Teach Receptive Language Skills to Learners with SEN will cover the effective methods to develop understanding of communication: identification and following instructions.
If you would like to get training in AAC communication systems, please order separate evidence-based training (EBPs) called Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) 
View Receptive Language Curriculum to see some IEP goals and skills we will be working on in this CPD and parent course.

Title: Using selected best evidence-based practices to teach Receptive Language to SEN Learners

If:

• you want to find out how a SEN teacher, a mainstream teacher, a special needs assistant, a therapist or a parent can effectively support a SEN learner in acquiring foundational and more advanced skills to help them get ready for pre-school or primary, post-primary or special school
• you want to implement the most effective selected techniques that are both attractive and motivating for your SEN learner to encourage them to collaborate with you, while learning not only school readiness skills, but also the important skills in other inter-related areas, such as: motor skills, receptive and expressive language, social emotional skills and play and leisure skills
• you consider it important to diversify the long-term therapeutic and educational processes and use comprehensive methods to target multiple areas with your child or pupils/clients
• you want to get confidence in how to effectively and correctly modify the activities, techniques and goals by gradual implementation of various elements of evidence-based practices in your work or life with a SEN learner
• you always do your best to adjust the activities and a level of difficulty, based on your learner's unique learning profiles and their individualised needs

If one or more of those statements applies to you, take part in this meaningful and practical certified online training, during which you will learn how to smoothly implement best solutions that are easy to implement in the classroom, in the clinic and at home.

This online training on How To Teach Receptive Language Effectively is divided into 2 forty-minute blocks to allow for the most effective use of the training time while having your questions answered by a an expert SEN teacher who is a therapist, an education & behaviour consultant and a mother of an ASD child.

This training is for you if you want to get important knowledge on how to shape your practical teaching skills. Additional questions you may have can be addressed via email, a live chat during the course or during your 1-1 online consultations.

During your online training on Using effective methods to teach Receptive Language to SEN Learners,
​you will find out about:

• Prerequisites to develop Receptive Language skills - core skills
• How to skilfully select therapeutic and teaching methods and what are they that will best help in work on school readiness skills
• How to expand the learner's skills onto a few other related areas while still focusing on Receptive Language skills
• How to skilfully apply teaching techniques and select activities to allow for the generalisation of skills
• How to select IEP goals and measure progress
• How to troubleshoot and effectively search workable solutions during your activities with your learner.

Detailed course programme:

• challenging behaviours and its functions
• motivational strategies in the classroom and in 1-1 work
• individualised motivational contracts with pupils
• significance of ongoing attention and approval provided to a pupil throughout the day 
• the significance of proactive activities.

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A practical part of each SKILLS course will relate to creating behavioural contracts, motivational systems and proactive activities that are important to effectively teach specific SKILLS in your selected course/s. We will find out how to easier teach specific skills if we have the right system in place in our classroom or at home.

Part 1

• The impact of a neurodevelopmental delay on the development of sensory motor functions, cognition, social emotional learning, language and social communication - why the early childhood stimulation of those areas is crucial in setting up any SEN learner for the best possible success in the school years and in adulthood
• Common deficits in SEN and related neurodevelopmental disorders and how to effectively target those deficits
• Warning signs in the dysfunction of neurological processes that lead to insufficient school readiness that impacts all other areas of development
• How to skilfully select some of the evidence-based practices to address receptive language skills and match them to your learner's unique profile.

Part 2

• Stimulation of Receptive Language development based on implementing selected core and main activities and matching IEP goals and procedures to address the development of those skills
• Examples of IEP goals and selection of best educational and therapeutic strategies to stimulate pre-academic skills in a hierarchical sequence
• Useful activities and suggested materials as supportive components of any quality pre-academic skills lesson / session at home, in school or in the clinic
• Troubleshooting and examples of how to best resolve problems that may arise during a session / lesson
• Collaboration between family home and school / clinic - how to better carry out joint intervention activities to enhance generalisation of skills in a naturalistic setting and in the community
• Selected ready lesson plans from the list below to teach the following skills:

Area: Core
1 One-Step Instructions
2 Identifying Objects

Area: Identification
3 Identifying Body Parts
4 Identifying Pictures
5 Identifying Familiar People in Pictures
6 Identifying Colours
7 Identifying Shapes
8 Identifying Verbs in Pictures
9 Identifying Rooms in Pictures
10 Identifying Community Helpers
11 Identifying Parts of Objects
12 Identifying Categories
13 Sorting Objects and Pictures
14 Identifying Objects by Function
15 Identifying Objects by Attribute, Category or Function
16 Identifying Body Parts by Function
17 Identifying Rooms by Function
18 Identifying Places by Function
19 Identifying Community Helpers by Function
20 Identifying Letters
21 Identifying Sounds
22 Identifying Emotions
23 Sequencing Pictures
24 Identifying Same and Different
25 Identifying Parts of a Calendar
26 Identifying Opposites
27 Identifying Synonyms
28 Identifying Left and Right
29 Identifying What Goes Together
30 Identifying What Does Not Belong
31 Identifying What’s Wrong
32 Identifying Objects in View When Described
33 Identifying States on a Map

Area: Instruction Following
34 Following a Point
35 Demonstrating Verbs
36 Going to Familiar People
37 Giving Objects to Familiar People
38 Getting Objects from a Distance
39 Locating Objects Based on Information
40 Following Two-Step Directions
41 Following Multi-Step Instructions
42 Placing Objects Using Prepositions

Area: Grammar
43 Identifying Singular and Plural
44 Identifying Negatives
45 Following Instructions that include Negatives
46 Identifying Verb Tense in Pictures