November 2, 2023 9:20 am - November 9, 2023 11:30 am Mary Gibson Training Room, 269 Davey Street, South Hobart 7004

Participants need to be able to attend both sessions. Spaces are limited to 30 participants for this professional learning series, so registrations are limited to two participants only per service. Because of space limitations we hope to offer additional sessions in early 2024. We aim to create a waitlist and contact those services when we intend to run another round of this professional learning.

Session 1: Communication Milestones Birth – 5 years

Date: Thursday 2nd November 2023

Time: 9.20am – 11.30am

Venue: Mary Gibson Training Room

269 Davey St, South Hobart (street parking only)

Session content:

  • Speech
  • Language
  • Fluency
  • Social communication milestones and
  • When to refer to a speech pathologist

 

Session 2: Strategies to Support Children’s Communication

Date: Thursday 9th November 2023

Time: 9.20am – 11.30am

Venue: Mary Gibson Training Room

269 Davey St, South Hobart (street parking only)

Session content:

  • Introduction to strategies to support communication.
  • Modelling language
  • Using visual supports
  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
  • Responding to children with speech errors and dysfluency

 

Facilitator: Megan Pasanen

Megan is a Speech and Language Pathologist who runs a private practice, Everyday Communication, and works at Early Childhood Inclusion Service (ECIS) in nipaluna/Hobart. Megan has worked extensively in early years settings, within multi-disciplinary,

trans-disciplinary, and single-discipline teams, in education, health, and private sectors, with children with mild to complex needs. Megan has had a broad range of clinical experiences with children and adolescents, 0 to 16 years-old, which has enabled her to develop a thorough knowledge of communication and feeding development and an understanding of the services available for children and their families in nipaluna/Hobart. Megan is passionate about supporting communication in the early years and has a special interest in communication development from birth to 5 years.