A short course to explore the link between sensory integration difficulties and speech and language development in children with hearing loss. Join us to discuss how sensory difficulties can impact a child’s ability to learn and communicate, and how professionals working with deaf children can identify and address these challenges. The course will explore the difference between sensory modulation and sensory discrimination. It will provide information on strategies, assessment, resources and referrals.
Attendees can apply for 2.5 CEUs upon completion of the webinar.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Participants will have access and be able to review current literature on children with hearing loss who have sensory integration difficulties.
- Participants will have an understanding of the behaviours that may manifest as a result of sensory integration difficulties.
- Participants will be able to reflect on how to view children with whom they work, through what Ayres (1979) termed a ‘sensory lens’.
Presenter Bios
Frances Clark, Senior Auditory Verbal Therapist and Clinical Lead
Frances qualified as a speech-language pathologist and audiologist at The University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 2004. After working in a South African hospital as a speech therapist/audiologist for one year, she moved to England in 2006. She worked for the Oxford Cochlear Implant Team and Oxford Primary Care Trust as a highly specialist speech and language therapist in deafness. She then worked as a highly specialist speech and language therapist for The Elizabeth Foundation, for pre-school deaf children and their parents, developing the speech and language therapy programme there.
In 2013, she began training in Auditory Verbal Therapy through our Part 1 course. In October 2013, she joined the team at AVUK and in August 2015 she qualified as an LSLS Cert. AVT. Frances is the Clinical Lead for AVUK. Frances regularly presents at conferences and delivers training both in the UK and abroad. She has a special interest in using books in therapy, Theory of Mind and Sensory Integration. She obtained a postgraduate certificate in Sensory Integration through Ulster University in January 2018. In 2019 she won a scholarship for Henley Business School and completed a Professional Certificate in Coaching. Frances is a member of the Global Matters committee for A G Bell.
Liz Hamilton, Auditory Verbal Therapist
Liz qualified as a speech and language therapist in 1999. Her final clinical placement at university gave Liz a passion for working with children with a hearing loss and their families.
Since then, Liz has worked for the NHS supporting a wide range of children, from four months to 16 years old, in a variety of settings, including a specialist school for the Deaf, resourced provisions within mainstream schools, nurseries, homes and community clinics.
In 2005 she joined the Yorkshire Auditory Implant Service’s multidisciplinary team as a principal speech and language therapist where she remained until August 2023. During this time Liz met with colleagues who had already completed their training in Auditory Verbal Therapy, and she could see the positive difference this had made to the children’s speech and language outcomes. This led her to pursue the training for herself and she qualified as a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist, certified Auditory Verbal Therapist in 2018.
Liz joined the team at AVUK in October 2023 and is based in Yorkshire. She also works as an independent therapist with a developing interest in supporting children with additional needs, in particular neurodivergent children. She is currently studying a Postgraduate Diploma in Sensory Integration.
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