Key Details
- Categories
- Workshop
- Course Code
- CPE25DHHDD
- Start Date
- 4 February 2025
- Time
- 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Course Information
This full day workshop is designed to provide space for discussions about education topics related to the education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing students.
Tentative program:
9-9:30am The importance of professional discussion- why we need to set time for discussion, and strategies to promote positive interactions
9:30-10:30 Literacy topics- this will be an opportunity to review the current literature and share ideas
11:00-2:30 Introduction and exploration of the Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS II) Assessment Tool
2:30-3pm Universal Design for Learning- reviewing our 2024 discussion and workshopping additional ideas
We are offering a buy 5, get 1 free discount offer for teams- contact trudy.smith@nextsense.org.au for more details!
Presenter
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Trudy Smith
Manager Continuing Professional Education: NextSense InstituteTrudy has been a Teacher of the Deaf since 1998. She spent several years working in inclusive classroom settings before becoming the Advisory Visiting Teacher: Hearing Impairment for the Mount Isa and Longreach Districts in Queensland. She worked as an Auditory Verbal Therapist, supporting children and families in rural and remote settings and became a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist Cert. AVT in 2007. Trudy then took on the role of State-wide Education Advisor: Hearing Impairment for the Department of Education in Queensland which she held for three years. She was then and has now returned to the role of Manager of Continuing Professional Education at NextSense Institute (formerly Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) Renwick Centre) for 6 years after working as a global Rehabilitation Manager at MED-EL, based in Austria for 2 years in 2016-2017.
