Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and children that have social communication difficulties need additional support to interact, play, understand and socialise with others.

This two hour training session can help you to understand more about working with these children and their parents to improve social communication skills.

Practical tips and activities will help you to focus on children that you have in mind, whilst providing time to discuss strategies and work out how to best apply them in your classroom.

Learning Outcomes:

• Preverbal and emerging verbal communication
• Strategies for social communication, play and group time
• Where to get more support

Training Provider:

Andrea Vine – Senior Speech-Language Pathologist, Growing Early Minds

Andrea has 10 years of experience supporting children with developmental delay and a range of disabilities. She is Hanen Program certified (More Than Words) to help children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) with social communication, and Lidcombe Program certified to assist children with difficulties in fluency (stuttering). Andrea also has a range of experience in supporting children with pre-literacy skills and school-aged language and literacy.

Andrea enjoys helping educators, children and families work on their goals around communication, play, behaviour and learning to help their children develop.