Supporting social connections with students who find playing with peers, group work, and interacting with peers tricky
Event description
Description
This 90-minute webinar will offer practical information to help build your confidence in understanding why social opportunities can add extra demands, pressure, and challenges to any activity for many neurodivergent students. Where some students may find social breaks to be a chance to recharge and group work to enhance learning, many neurodivergent students need us to careful consider the complexities and challenges of socialising during the school day. We will be talking about how to separate social development from other learning, add ourselves into play to scaffold opportunities, and ensure that we are valuing neurodivergent ways of playing and connecting. The double empathy problem will be foundational to this webinar.
Recordings
This webinar will have a pre-recorded version shared at the time of registration.
Location – Zoom! We’ll send through the link one day prior to the email provided when you sign up!
Dates –
* Wed 31 January 2024 from 7-930 pm including Q/A
Learning Objectives – participants will be able to
- list at least 3 reasons why social opportunities can add extra demands
- describe the concept of 'social break lights'
- describe practical ways to support social interactions
- consider ways to expand the bubble of acceptability in a school's culture
- consider ways to scaffold social opportunities
Set Competency Categories
The Ministry of Education has identified 12 competency categories. This webinar covers the following categories:
- Neurodiversity
- Behaviour
- Communication
- Inclusion
- Wellbeing
- Learning support
Payment
For those who are using the Teaching Aide PLD fund from the Ministry of Education, select one of free ARN number ticket types. We'll invoice the Ministry of Education directly for the course after you attend. You will need to apply for travel, release time, etc directly from the Ministry of Education. For more information about this process, go to http://inclusive-communication.co.nz/courses or directly to the Ministry’s website https://pld.education.govt.nz/find-pld/teacher-aide-professional-learning-and-development-fund-2023-2024/#007
Courses are also open to the general public – just select the private pay option!
Refunds and cancellations:
- You can cancel and organise a refund 7 days before the session through Humanitix
- We reserve the right to reschedule or cancel a session if there are too few people registered 7 days prior.
- If we need to cancel due to illness or unforeseen events, we’ll email you and offer a refund and option to reschedule for another date.
Presenter Bio
Shannon Hennig is a registered speech-language therapist who specialises in neurodiversity, inclusive education practice, assistive technology, and communication challenges. She has wealth of knowledge around how to support young people with language and communication needs. She previously has worked as a teaching aide herself and has 20 years of experience working in classrooms in both primary and secondary. She is known for providing informative PLD content that emphasises practical strategies that can immediately be put into practice.
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