These are convenient, accessible and can be accessed at anytime.
These sessions are presented by RIDBC staff and external experts in the field.
All of these sessions also can be used for accreditation purposes. Each course will clearly state what accreditation is available for each course.
Top Tips Series – Creating Accessible Documents – Session 2 EXCEL Documents
Accessibility is the key to successfully including students who are blind or vision impaired at school and we are here to help!
Top Tips Series – Creating Accessible Documents – Session 1 WORD Documents
Accessibility is the key to successfully including students who are blind or vision impaired at school and we are here to help!
Top Tips Series – Academic Language
This webinar covers: Academic language and why it is important, What can you do to incorporate this within lessons and everyday language, and how this can help
From amplification to attention: the neurophysiology of auditory processing in noise
In this session, we will review recent literature and experiments that describe the changing features of oscillatory brain activity during development and in different listening environments. We will discuss how these findings may guide the identification and remediation of children with language-learning difficulties, including children with hearing loss, and the importance of robust environments for fostering language development.
Top Tips Series – Classroom strategies for students with vision loss
Need to know more about how to set up your classroom to ensure that your student with vision impairment (VI) has access to learning materials and experiences?
Top Tips Series – Listening Hierarchy
Awareness of the Listening Hierarchy may help you to decode the behaviours you are seeing in your classroom by students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing or with another disability, students who use English as a Second Language, students from low socio-economic backgrounds or students who have experienced trauma.
Top Tips Series – Instructional Strategies for children with vision impairment
Task analysis is a useful instructional strategy when teaching students with vision impairment the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC). Task analysis refers to identifying the steps involved in completing a task or activity, and analysing the skills required to complete each step.
Top Tips Series – Classroom Acoustics
Classroom acoustics describes the listening properties of your classroom, and the influence this has on the learning of a student with hearing loss.
Supporting Teenagers with hearing loss – a contract of support
This webinar will identify the needs of teenagers and the supports they require and how those working with them can met those needs in a practical way.
Looking at play through a different lens
This webinar investigates the different aspects of play that children who are deaf or hard of hearing need to acquire to make and keep friends. It focuses on getting along with others, staying calm with other and being responsible for our behaviour also how to share space with others.
