Training for your Department, School, or School District

Hearing Them Into Voice represents a paradigm shift in how we view teaching non-verbal children. It emphasizes the critical role of parents and challenges us to achieve new levels of collaboration (between children, parents, teachers, paraprofessionals, and speech-language pathologists working as a single team). As such, many parents, schools, and departments within the school district have asked for additional training in how to implement this new paradigm.

I conduct a 4-hour training workshop on how to implement Hearing Them Into Voice in your school district. The workshops are broken down into the following components:

• Hearing Them Into Voice: How it was developed, results from field tests, implications for the classroom (PowerPoint Presentation);
• Role Playing:  Experiencing Hearing Them Into Voice first-hand in everyday settings;
• Comparing Observations:  How our belief systems inform our interpretations;
• Discussion:  Reshaping the role of assessment;
• Expectations:  Comparing the different goals of parents and teachers of non-verbal students; and
• Using Hearing Them Into Voice for goal setting and making Individual Education Programs (IEP).

In order for these workshops to be most effective, I ask schools and special education departments to be sure to invite and include parents as equal participants.

The cost of these workshops is $500 plus any travel expenses.  If you would like to schedule a training please e-mail me at SMRsp@aol.com