New Training Opportunities
We offer a variety of technical and educational courses to support your work with deaf children and young people.
Please contact us for an informal discussion about your training needs.
You may also be interested in a free training event being offered by Auditory Verbal UK on 4th February 2025 for professionals working in Wales. This project has been supported by our grantmaking partner Ovingdean Hall Foundation. Find out more.
Ewing Foundation's training packages - new and updated
Our new team of Education Advisors are delighted to offer the following training packages. The team can be flexible with training and are happy to deliver elements of different courses to meet your needs. Our bespoke and specialist training is delivered by experienced Qualified Teachers of Deaf Children and Young People (QToDs) and is designed to upskill QToDs and others working in deaf education in order to improve outcomes for deaf children and young people.
Language assessment and target setting - half or full day
Language assessment is one of the key skills of a QToD. This training will help new and established QToDs to choose the right language assessment for any deaf child or young person from 0-25 years, administer it effectively, interpret the data and set appropriate targets. In view of the new assessments now available to QToDs, this training can also support services to review and update their Assessment Policy.
Evaluation of listening measures: using speech tests to validate electroacoustic measurements - half or full day
As QToDs know, having the best access to speech sounds is vital to ensure that deaf children’s spoken language can develop. Using the test box and listening checks is key to ensuring hearing aids are working, but we also need to evaluate how well deaf children and young people are listening through their equipment. This training is a refresher course on using speech discrimination testing, with or without automated speech in noise kits.
Using the PLS-5 and the CELF-5 to assess the language of deaf children and young people - half day
Since 2022, QToDs have been able to purchase and administer the Preschool Language Scale-5 (PLS-5) and Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-5 (CELF-5). These assessments were previously only available for Speech and Language Therapists and Educational Psychologists, but now QToDs can use these assessments to access the language of deaf children and young people from 0-25 years of age.
This course will provide an overview of the new PLS-5 and CELF-5 language assessments, and offer an in-depth exploration of some of their features. including the pragmatics checklist and the pragmatics activities. We will show how the PLS-5 and the CELF-5 can be used to support target setting to improve outcomes for deaf children and young people from 0-25 years. There will be the opportunity to handle the test materials and look at some of the the subtests in detail, including the new pragmatics section of the CELF-5. We will then explore some case studies and look at how to maximise outcomes with effective target setting, based on the assessment data.
Assessments - what now? - half or full day
We all know the importance of assessing deaf children’s language. However, what we do next with our assessment data is key.
This course will help you think about how to interpret the data, set relevant SMART targets and use evidenced based interventions to support outcomes.
This is a practical training session, which will use case studies of deaf learners.
This session will be most effective if we are able to use data from your own school or service.
For more information about any of these courses, please contact us.
We will be adding new training sessions throughout the year, so please do check back for further details.