These courses are delivered Face to Face and are open to everyone to attend; parents, teachers, school executives, principals, allied health and medical professionals as well as students. These courses are held at RIDBC Renwick Centre, around Australia and in some international locations.
Many of these sessions are available through remote access from around the country and world.
These sessions offer the research and practical skills as well as networking opportunities.
Unpacking the Code: Braille Mathematics in the Secondary years
This workshop will identify all relevant principles essential in having a true understanding of braille transcription of mathematical material 7 – 12. It will address the various braille code signs and modes at this level and give a comprehensive understanding of why things are brailled as they are when an almost identical item is brailled differently.
Vision Surveillance and Screening for the Nursing Profession
This day will present a focus on early identification of eye and vision problems in children aged 0-5 years.
Simple steps to improved adult audiological rehabilitiation
In this workshop we will discuss the common barriers to both uptake, and success of audiological rehabilitation. Theoretical discussion will be scaffolded by implementing tools and strategies with simulated patients, aimed at reducing barriers and achieving successful outcomes.
AAC – Communication in Action
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) are the communication tools, systems and strategies that can replace or supplement natural speech. There are many reasons that a person may not be able to communicate using speech. AAC is the tool that can give a person with little or no speech a way to communicate their needs, their thoughts and ideas, tell stories, and interact with the world around them.
Do you want to be my friend? That depends …. Thinking socially: tools for making and keeping friends
This course will provide current research and perspectives into the strengths and gaps that children with hearing loss have when it comes to thriving socially.
Teacher of the Deaf Conference
This is a one day conference for visiting teachers and other professionals supporting students who are deaf or hard of hearing in schools
Equal access to information and digital services
This course will provide participants with the necessary skills to achieve the highest standards in digital communications. This hands on course will enable participants to gain the skills and knowledge to create documents that are accessible to all people
Living and learning with Assistive technology
This two day course will provide participants with the opportunity to hear from keynote presenters as well as break off into streams that focus on deaf hard of hearing students/clients, blind and low vision students/clients as well as those that switch users.
Growing Small Talk into Big Ideas: Advancing Listening and Spoken Language Outcomes through Family-Centred Practice
Join this engaging session to explore how auditory verbal practitioners, speech-language pathologists, special educators, and early intervention practitioners can apply research on the importance of parent talk to meet the needs of the families of children who are deaf/hard of hearing (DHH) they serve. Evidence-based practices and developmentally appropriate activities aimed at building listening and spoken language (LSL) skills for young children who are DHH will be identified.
