Professional Development

If a school, day care centre or other facility would like to provide staff with professional development in the areas of speech, language or literacy, Fremantle Speech Pathology Services can help.

 

We can design the content according to the needs of the individual setting or alternatively, we offer a range of possible topics from the list below:

 

• Facilitating young children’s transition from oral to literate language

• Pre-literacy skills in kindergarten and pre-primary: methods to expedite the process

• Ideas for extending the writing of narrative texts (early, mid or late primary)

• Formulas for essay writing (persuasive, analytical, issue-based)

• Spelling strategies (early, mid or late primary)

• Reading comprehension strategies

• Sentence Construction 

• Stuttering

• Speech development and delay

• How to identify “at risk” students

• Ideas for extending the writing of narrative texts – how to add details, emotion, reasoning, description etc.

• Formulas for essay writing - persuasive, analytical, issue-based

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Workshops can be provided to:

 

• Classroom teachers

• Learning support teachers

• Educational assistants

• Parents

• Students

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