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.
Is there a bonus effect? Supporting bilingual children with hearing loss who use CIs and/or HAs
This series of webinar presentations will unpack emerging knowledge about the neuroscience of dual-language acquisition in early childhood, and consider the influence that habilitation and therapy support for bi/multi-lingual language skills may have on a young child with CIs/HAs future education and social development.
Accessibility features of iOS and MacOS and teaching hearing impaired students
This is the second webinar in a series of webinars that will unpack some accessibilty features of iOS devices that students are using in the classroom and their everyday lives. This webinar will focus on the built in accessibility features for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. It is important that you feel (more…)
Connecting Up : Accessibility Features of iOS and teaching hearing impaired students
This webinar focusses on audio connections to mobile phones, ipads, computers & using the built in accessibility features that these devices have. It demonstrates various features and shows you how to connect hearing devices to audio devices in order to maximise the functionality of the devices.
Literacy for Parents
This webinar will unpack what is literacy and explore ways that we can support children’s literacy learning by teaching and/or coaching their parents.
Vision Surveillance
This webinar is divided into two parts and runs for two hours. In the webinar we are going to look at the rationale for vision surveillance. We are going to untangle the vision surveillance cycle and through that untangling we will hopefully sort out why we do what we do and when we do it.
Development of Vision
This webinar addresses the development of vision in humans, with a focus on the relationship between visual development and general child development.
Improving Spoken language Outcomes for children with hearing loss: Data Driven Instruction
This webinar investigates the effect of data driven instruction and how it can be used to improve the spoken language outcomes for children with a hearing loss.
Education Access and Engagement for student’s with vision impairment
This webinar will focus on the components of an equitable quality education system. The presentation by Dr Frances Gentle will go into depth discussing the class as an ecosystem and look at the following components: student factors, teacher factors, physical setting and curriculum and resource factors.
Interpreting Bjerrum and Goldmann Visual Fields
This webinar explores the concepts, testing and reporting of visual fields when the Bjerrum Tangent Screen and Goldmann Perimeter have been used in assessment. Examples of typical visual field loss are provided, with a comparison between the two test types, to further the viewer’s understanding of visual fields.
Understanding Functional Vision
This webinar presents a model to explain the complexities of visual function and highlights the similarities and differences between the clinical assessment and the functional assessment of vision. An overview of an approach to functional vision assessment is presented, with suggestions made for maximising the use of vision during assessment and in a person’s everyday life.
