Brin is a student at McGowan Elementary that uses a speech generating device to communicate. You can read her story on SETBC (Click).
Welcome to the new 2013-2014 school year! Our department would like to also welcome Jennifer Amy as she will be filling in for Lindsay Donaghy. Please check the “Our Schools” tab to see who is assigned to your school this year.
LART Spring Workshop today! Jason Sirianni, RSLP will be presenting with LARTS Sandi Soll and Teena Mangan on using iPads and low tech options to support learning. The presentation handout can be found here -> LART iPad Apps
The Provincial Integration Support Program (www.pisp.ca) is in our district to work with students and provide a workshop today (see below). If you would like handouts, please download here Walk Through PISP Website 2013 and here http://www.pisp.ca/inservice_training/documents/SleuthingHandouts.pdf .
Please download the handout for the April 15th PISP workshop on “Sleuthing…” right here: http://www.pisp.ca/inservice_training/documents/SleuthingHandouts.pdf
The Provincial Integration Support Program team (www.pisp.ca) will be in our district for the week of April 15, 2013 to April 19, 2013. Since April 15th is a pro-d day, the team has offered to provide a half day workshop with the following schedule:
Determining the comprehension skills for students who have multiple disabilities can be challenging. This workshop will explore different ways for helping to get a clearer understanding of what these students may comprehend.
This inservice will walk participants through some “wild” resources on the PISP website as well as share some other very useful website links for students with severe multiple disabilities (Bring your laptops or tablets if you want to follow along).
The mandate of PISP is to assist schools throughout British Columbia in meeting the educational needs of students with multiple severe/profound physical and cognitive disabilities. If you would like to attend, please fill out the following form BY APRIL 1st: http://t.sd73.bc.ca/39
Today the SLPs will be presenting strategies to improve language comprehension in the classroom. You can download the handouts here: He Just Doesn’t Get It
Hi teachers. Your SLPs have created some great handouts to help you address your students’ speech and language skills in the classroom. Go to the “For Teachers” tab and begin exploring.
It is a pro-d day in SD #73. SLPs Naomi Abel and Jason Sirianni are doing workshops for teachers. Naomi is providing a workshop for teachers at Marion Schilling Elementary titled “Language in the Classroom”. Jason is providing a workshop to resource room teachers on AAC and the iPad app Proloquo2Go. Have a great day and learn lots!
We are slowly rolling out a new speech and language services model based on RTI principles. We will be giving an overview of this to our district’s principals on Thursday the 29th. If you would like to see the slides or print them, click on the link: RTI Presentation Nov 2012 Short
