Learn how to use visual supports to enhance learning, communication, behavior, and play for all children in this engaging and interactive workshop! This training will help you create and implement effective visual supports in your early childhood setting. Participants will create their own visual supports and receive take-away handouts such as wait mats, first/then visuals, and core boards for various centers. Sign up today to reduce negative behaviors, encourage structure, and facilitate play and communication!

In this training, participants will learn about early childhood literacy milestones. The milestone knowledge will be used to develop props and extension activities for books that they use in their settings. Participants will be provided with a variety of materials for prop creation to use during storytelling that will engage young children. Participants will present their resources and activities with the group for everyone to benefit!

Understand the importance of 11 essential prelinguistic skills children master before using spontaneous words and practical strategies to support these skills.
Participants will develop specific activities and strategies for selected prelinguistic skills and apply them for facilitation of prelinguistic skills to support communication skills for all children

Participants will engage in this workshop designed by Trish Friedlander, Speech and Language Pathologist, a.k.a. "SpeechieTrish" to help early childhood professionals understand communication delays. The trainer provides resources to explain speech sound disorders, communication development milestones, and strategies to help boost children's communication. Participants are expected to reflect upon the children they serve, apply the strategies presented to routines in the day, and share the challenges faced with children with speech delays.

Apply ideas to encourage a language-rich environment and build communication skills within that setting! Participants will differentiate between speech and language, and Identify receptive and expressive language milestones.
You will be provided with tools for building receptive and expressive language within your setting with language stimulation strategies. Speechie Trish will provide you with practical ideas for designing and implementing a language-rich environment.

In this 2-hour, in-person workshop, participants will learn about what sounds children should have and what expressive and receptive language skills children should have by specific age ranges. We will discuss what to watch for in the classroom and when to refer to a speech-language pathologist. The second half of the session will highlight how to create and implement visuals to assist in the classroom. This workshop is intended for regular education teachers and assistants in the age 2-5 settings.