Online Learning

Thursday 20th March 2025, 2.00pm-5.30pm NZDT

This event will also be RECORDED and the recording will be available for 7 days after the "live" presentation. Single registration cost is for each individual, not per site. Zoom will be used to deliver the training with “meeting room” details emailed to participants prior to the event. You will need to download Zoom software to your computer. A webcam and inbuilt microphone on your computer is also preferable so you can fully participate.

Intended Participants

This online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event is intended for Speech-Language Therapists interested in the "science of learning" and how to integrate research evidence and practical strategies with intervention for school-aged children with language and literacy disorders.

Readings and Resources

Recommended readings and resources will be shared 1-2 weeks before the event.

Content Covered Will Include:

Information Processing Theory
Cognitive Load Theory
Schema development
Rosenshine’s 10 principles of instruction
Spaced retrieval practice and interleaving
Writing and sharing learning intentions and success criteria
Designing and implementing effective checks for understanding
Maintaining attention to, and increasing responses related to ‘critical content’
Explicit teaching – how to best build conceptual knowledge vs gradually releasing a complex skill
Using learning intentions, success criteria and self-reflection to build self-efficacy in students
Learning myths and legends – learning styles, Zone of Proximal Development, the learning pyramid

About Laura Glisson

Laura is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist, early career researcher, lecturer and consultant. She has a special interest in developmental language disorder, literacy and writing for children aged 5-18 years. Laura has worked in private practice, mainstream schools, specialist schools, outreach services, universities and training organisations. She has supervised speech pathology students in schools placements, guest lectured for speech pathology students at Curtin University and Edith Cowen University and mentored and managed speech pathologists in WA and the UK.

As Co-Founder and Co-Director of Tracks to Literacy, Laura provides professional learning, consulting and coaching within primary and secondary schools to support whole school language and literacy instruction. Laura also works clinically with upper primary and early secondary students with language and literacy difficulties, and is a Clinical Coordinator, lecturer and member of the Language and Literacy in Young People research lab at Curtin University in WA.

Laura’s mission is to support the translation of research evidence into the classroom and clinic and make evidence-based practice easier for clinicians and teachers.