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.
Auditory Function
Developing the auditory brain is dependent on appropriate hearing technology whether that be hearing aids, cochlear implant, Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA) along with enriched auditory exposure that is appropriate for the age and stage of the child should promote auditory brain development.
Differentiation: the case of individuals who are blind or vision impaired
This webinar is designed for educators and other professionals working in formal and non-formal learning environments, who would like to enrich their theoretical knowledge and skills regarding the education of individuals who are visually impaired or blind.
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 accessibility 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…)
Common Eye Disorders in Childhood
This webinar is a multi part series investigating the common eye disorders in children and the impact that these have on their development.
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.
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.
