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.
Hearing Awareness Week: Experience Books
Looking for a strategy to squeeze more language into the interactions your child with hearing loss has with you, family and friends? Wanting to build vocabulary about your home, an upcoming holiday, extended family members or in preparation for school?
Hearing Awareness Week: Getting ready for big school
It can be tricky to try to anticipate everything your child needs to know and be able to do to ease their transition to school. What activities should you be doing at home and what conversations can you have this year so that school is simply a wonderful adventure for you all next year?
Improving the Outcomes of Students with Vision Loss in Mainstream Schools 2020
Mainstream teachers will benefit from this one-day workshop by gaining a deeper understanding of the characteristics and learning needs of students with vision loss.
Social Skill Development: Physical and Mental Well-Being for Life. What’s Not to Like about Being Engaged with Others?
In this session, Dr. Wolffe will describe the importance and need for structured social skills learning for children and youth who are blind or partially sighted. Socialization is a key element in an individual’s physical and mental health.
Improving the Outcomes of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Mainstream Schools 2020
Mainstream teachers will benefit from this one-day workshop by gaining a deeper understanding of the characteristics and learning needs of students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.
Teacher Aides: Supporting Students who are Blind or have Low Vision in your School 2020
This two day course is delivered through a mixed mode of delivery. It includes two days face to face, in between session course work and viewing some webinars.
Audiology Masterclass Series 2020
Each Masterclass, except #4 will be offered live at the Australian Hearing Hub and through a Zoom webinar from 12-1pm EST on the posted date. #4 will be offered remotely through Zoom. Ten days after each live event, a recording of the webinar will also be made available for you to watch via the Short Courses website. You will be notified via email for both the live event and when the recording is available to watch.
Teacher Aides: Supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in your School 2020
This course is split across two separate dates: Day 1 – Wednesday 1 April, and Day 2 – Wednesday 3 June. This course is intended to provide participants with the skills and knowledge required to assist in supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in the learning environment.
It’s more than language: (Re)positioning the role of pragmatics in learning for deaf and hard of hearing children and young people
This one-day workshop will explore the links between pragmatics and social communication. Participants will build knowledge informed by the latest research in the field of pragmatics in deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children and young people, and its application to a range of education settings.
Auslan 2 2020
This interactive course provides participants with an opportunity to build on the foundations that they learned in Auslan 1
