Online Workshops
Smart Ears is pleased to offer online workshops on teaching children with hearing loss to listen and talk. The workshops are aimed at education and health professionals who work with children with hearing loss, and are not suitable for parents.
Smart Ears Online Workshops
Online workshops are convenient. You don't have to miss additional days of work traveling to another city for the workshop (not to mention arranging for a babysitter at home!). You can sit at your computer at your home or workplace, relax, and concentrate all your energy on learning!
Online workshops are cost-effective. They cost a fraction of what conventional workshops do if you factor in the cost of travel, stay, and lost workdays. Add them up, and you probably can do the complete Smart Ears Workshop Series for the cost of a single in-person workshop!
Our online workshops are not boring text chats. You'll see and hear the instructor, see the slides, watch video clips, refer to your handouts, and interact with the instructor and fellow attendees. With a focus on the practical, you will leave the workshop with new skills and a bunch of new ideas!
ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) CEUs are offered for the workshops. All our workshops are also approved by the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language towards their LSLS continuing education and/or learning requirements.
Please note that our workshops focus solely on children with hearing loss, birth thorough early elementary (0-8). Issues relating to older children are not discussed.
In addition to the Basics (introductory) workshop, we offer a number of advanced workshops, to take your skills to the next level.
Here are the currently offered workshops; click on each for detailed information, and to register.
2012 SPRING SEASON
BASICS
1. Teaching Children with Hearing Loss to Listen and Talk - The Basics (Full-day) Next available workshop date(s): Fall 2012
The above Basics workshop (or equivalent knowledge) is a pre-requisite for all other workshops. Please read the FAQ found on each workshop-specific page for details.
ACTIVITIES
2. Teaching Children with Hearing Loss to Listen and Talk - Auditory Activities (Half-day) Next available workshop date(s): Fall 2012
PLAY-BY-PLAY
3. Teaching Children with Hearing Loss to Listen and Talk - Play-by-Play (of an AV Session) (Half-day) Next available workshop date(s): Fall 2012
GETTING STARTED
4. Teaching Children with Hearing Loss to Listen and Talk - Getting Started) (Half-day) Next available workshop date(s): Fall 2012
The above three workshops constitute a "1-2-3 Punch" designed to get you going right away! We recommend that you take them as a course, in succession (after you have attended the BASICS workshop).
SPEECH THROUGH AUDITION
5. Teaching Children with Hearing Loss to Listen and Talk - Developing Speech through Audition (Half-day) Next available workshop date(s): Fall 2012
COCHLEAR IMPLANTS
6. Teaching Children with Hearing Loss to Listen and Talk - Working with Children with Cochlear Implants (Half-day) Next available workshop date(s): Fall 2012
BABIES
7. Teaching Children with Hearing Loss to Listen and Talk - Working with Babies (Full-day) Next available workshop date(s): Fall 2012