Our Ewing Foundation team are pleased to offer deaf education professionals breakfast bite-size learning opportunities to get the day off to a great start!
Each online session takes place from 8.30am to 9am and includes an introduction to the topic, time for discussion and a take-home summary of the session. These sessions are free of charge, and provide a great bite-size opportunity to network and share good practice!
Here are details of four training opportunities that took place in early 2024. Please email info@ewing-foundation.org.uk if you would like to be notified of future breakfast bite-size training dates.
Thursday 1st February 2024 – An introduction to PLS-5
This bite-size session gave an overview of the PLS-5 and its potential for assessing the language of deaf children from the age of 0 to 7 years.
Thursday 22nd February 2024 – The new Area SEND Inspection Framework: a recent ‘lived’ experience of a Team Leader for Deaf and Hearing support. A Qualified Teacher of the Deaf (QToD) and Team Leader discussed her recent three week Area SEND Inspection experience; the information requested by inspectors, key lines of enquiry and how she prepared for the interview. The session gave delegates an overview of the process and helped to support their own preparation for Area SEND Inspection.
Thursday 14th March 2024, 8.30-9.00am – Making the most of the Ling sounds
In response to the wealth of information and resources available to support completion of the Ling 6 sound check, this session started to unpick what is needed to best complete the Ling sound check at different ages and stages.
Thursday 21st March – An overview of the CELF-5 language assessment with particular reference to assessing Pragmatic Skills Following the bite-size PLS assessment, which can be used to assess deaf children’s language from age 0 years to 7 years and 11 months, this bite-size looked at the potential for using the CELF-5 to assess the language of deaf learners from age 5 years to 21 years. The CELF-5 allows users to assess deaf learners’ language holistically giving an overview of areas of strength and challenge. The updated CELF-5 also includes two additional sections to assess deaf learners’ pragmatics skills. The Pragmatics Profile is a checklist of speech intentions and the Pragmatics Activity Checklist provides activities to set up and use with the child, providing opportunities to observe what pragmatic skills they have and how they use these pragmatic skills. This breakfast bite-size gave an overview of the CELF, with particular reference to the assessment of deaf learners’ pragmatic skills.
Please email info@ewing-foundation.org.uk if you would like to be notified of future breakfast bite-size dates.