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 Package – BVI
This package is a bundle of 4 webinars related to working with students who are blind or have low vision. This package is suitable to teachers, SLSO’s and other professionals working with students who are blind or have low vision in the classroom.
Top Tips Series Package – D/HH
This package is a bundle of 4 webinars related to working with students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. This package is suitable to teachers, SLSO’s and other professionals working with students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in the classroom.
Connecting Up: Accessibility Features of iOS and teaching hearing impaired students Package
This webinar package unpacks some accessibility features of iOS devices that deaf or hard of hearing students may be using in the classroom and also in their everyday lives.
Top Tips Series – Making Classrooms Accessible for students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
This webinar covers: obstacles within the classroom, and how to successfully overcome them, and successful strategies to incorporate within your lessons.
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.