Training
Toucan Talk Pediatric Therapy
Early Years Training 0 – 7 years
Early Years Training 0 – 7 years
We train caregivers and educations with early education training from birth to 7 years of age to “Training to parents and educators with early education training from birth to 7 years of age.
With over 20 years of early intervention knowledge and experience within the fields of special educational needs and crisis intervention, rest assured that your training is in excellent hands.
Supporting Children with Autism & Social Communication Needs.
The training has been developed to provide early education settings and educators an understanding of what autism is and the individual impact it can have. The course focuses on the four different area’s of difference associated with autism…
Supporting Children with Down Syndrome in the Early Years
The training has been developed to provide early education settings and educators an understanding of Down Syndrome and the impact it can have both to the individual and classroom setting. The course focuses on social emotional development…
Speech Language & Communication
The training has been developed to provide early education settings and educators an understanding of the early stages of speech, language and communication development and creating opportunities within the classroom setting for children to…
Story Sack
Workshop
Workshop
The workshop has been developed to provide ideas on how to enhance story time for those children that might need extra support to develop skills such as listening, social interaction and attending story time. Story time within the early year…
Sensory Play at Little
to No Cost
to No Cost
This course has been developed to help provide early years settings and educators an understanding of the different senses we have and how we can provide different activities to promote these different senses. Sensory play within the early…
Consultation and Class Observation.
The consultation and class observation is to provide advice, guidance and some strategies on inclusion within the classroom environment. The observation will look at your class setting and see if anything can be enhanced to help with…
Supporting Children with Autism
& Social Communication Needs.
& Social Communication Needs.
3 ½ hrs course
$675
Overview
The training has been developed to provide early education settings and educators an understanding of what autism is and the individual impact it can have. The course focuses on the four different area’s of difference associated with autism, communication, processing, social and sensory, and how these differences may present and how we can make adjustments to our thinking and environments to make them more enabling for children. Participants will gain more insight into visual support and how to use it, understanding processing difficulties that we might see and how we can adapt to support this area of need. Participants will gain an understanding of social interaction and the impact and how we can support the individual child. Sensory sensitivity are explained with some ideas of resources shared.
Aims
- To develop increased understanding and awareness of autism and social communication needs.
- To explore strategies to support learning and development.
- To enhance good practice across Early Years.
- To ensure effective support for Early Years children across all settings.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to summarize the four areas of difference in autism (communication, processing, social interaction, and sensory processing) and how this could impact children within the setting.
- Participants will be able to describe strategies to use to support the children within the setting.
- Participants will be able to list some resources to use within the setting for best practice for children with autism.
Supporting Children with
Down Syndrome in the Early Years
Down Syndrome in the Early Years
2 ½ hrs course
$375
Overview
The training has been developed to provide early education settings and educators an understanding of Down Syndrome and the impact it can have both to the individual and classroom setting. The course focuses on social emotional development, fine motor skills, visual impairment, language development and numeracy skills and how these differences may present and how we can adjust our thinking and environments to make them more enabling for children. Participants will gain more insight into the strengths and weaknesses of each area of need and then how to support each area. Participants will also gain an understanding of the different types of resources that can be used and adopted to help support the individual child.
Aims
- Provide an overview of Down Syndrome
- To consider implications for learning
- To consider effective teaching approaches
- To consider appropriate strategies and resources for inclusion.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to describe some basic facts about Down Syndrome.
- Participants will have some understanding of what the strengths and weaknesses are for children with Down Syndrome in the areas of social and emotional development, fine motor skills, visual impairment and language and numeracy development.
- Participants will be able to come up with some ideas for strategies to use within the educational environment.
- Partisans will be able to use different resources to enable a child with Down Syndrome to succeed.
Speech, Language
& Communication
& Communication
2 hr course
$300
Overview
The training has been developed to provide early education settings and educators an understanding of the early stages of speech, language and communication development and creating opportunities within the classroom setting for children to develop and use these skills. The course focuses on how communication develops, visual support, attention and listening, behavior, play, interaction, understanding of language and speech sounds. Participants will gain an understanding of each area and will also gain an understanding of the different types of resources that can be used and adopted to help support the individual child.
Aims
- To increase your awareness of the early stages of communication development.
- To help you begin to understand your role in developing children’s early communication.
- To help you begin to identify ways of creating opportunities for the children to use and develop their language and communication skills in the classroom.
- To discuss visual support and share ideas and resources
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to describe communication and how we all communicate using different strategies.
- Participants will have a better understanding in how to support the child/ren in education environment with communication.
- Participants will be able to start using some visual supports in the education environment to support children.
Story Sack workshop
1 ½ hrs workshop
$250
$250
Overview
The workshop has been developed to provide ideas on how to enhance story time for those children that might need extra support to develop skills such as listening, social interaction and attending story time. Story time within the early years setting can be a time to learn and develop early literacy skills. Listening to stories provides us as early years educators a time to introduce new language and develop listening skills, essential for communication. It also provides children the opportunity to learn social skills, develop vocabulary and their horizons, hearing an adult speak, watching other children listen, how to pay attention and how to take turns. If you have a child that requires additional support in story time the course provides some different ideas, insight and different resources for stories to help engage and support those children that require the additional support to help them learn and develop those essential skills to learn how to communicate.
Aims
- To provide ideas to early years educators in making story times more visual for children with special needs.
- To explore different resources that could be used to support and enhance the story books.
- To enhance participation and access to story time for children with special needs.
Learning Objectives
- Summarize the types of support to enhance story time.
- To provide different ideas and resources to different story books used at story time.
Sensory Play at Little
to No Cost
to No Cost
2 hr course
$300
$300
Overview
This course has been developed to help provide early years settings and educators an understanding of the different senses we have and how we can provide different activities to promote these different senses. Sensory play within the early years setting can be a time to learn and develop new skills that help us to self-regulate and learn about our environment. We all have these senses that we need to understand, but some of us require additional support in understanding these senses. Participants will gain an overview of our senses and an understanding of different types of resources that can be used and developed for each sense and how to adapt them if required. Participants will gain new ideas (that don’t cost big bucks) how to help engage and support children using different activities to help them learn and develop their senses to help them negotiate the world we live in.
Aims
- To increase awareness of the different senses we have.
- To begin to understand your role in developing children’s sensory play.
- To identify ways of creating opportunities for different sensory experiences within the child’s day.
- To discuss and share ideas and resources that cost little to nothing to provide.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to identify all the senses that we have.
- Participants will be able to implement strategies to support sensory play within their environment.
- Participants will be able to describe and produce some activities in around all of our senses.
Consultation and Class
Observation
Observation
2 hours
$250
$250
Overview
The consultation and class observation is to provide advice, guidance and some strategies on inclusion within the classroom environment. The observation will look at your class setting and see if anything can be enhanced to help with individuals or a group of children. The consultation can be used to discuss an individual child that you may feel needs some additional support within the class setting, such as visuals, the equipment needed or the class structure and routine. Seeing the classroom and child/ren in person, and how you work allows me to gain a better understanding and knowledge to see if we can ‘tweak’ what’s currently working to develop strategies that allow a child to progress in their development and learning.
Please note that individual developmental needs assessment can’t take place without parental permission.
Aims
- To gain a deeper understanding of what inclusion looks like in practice within the classroom environment.
- To develop strategies for the individual or group of children within your classroom environment.
- To discuss how to ‘tweak’ your working classroom environment.
Location
Serving Lake County Florida and surrounding area.
1635 E Hwy 50,
Suite 101
Clermont
Fl, 34711