Communication specialists

Duel language working•Know yourself and the staff•Know the pupils

Oak Lodge Communication Specialists

2013 staff profile

A continuum?

Role models

Creating the LRE (Least Restrictive Environment)•Sign every where•Deaf staff •Competent hearing staff•Using communication rules•Using hearing aids effectively

2013 pupil profile

Modified sign

• Bigger• Use less language but it’s more accessible• Single signs focusing on meaning and form• Do things to get attention, wait until they look• Displace signs• Sign slower and repeat signs• Less questions more naming

Pupil Profiles

Pupil Profiles

Using FMYear

Group*Multi-modal

SSE/Oral BSL/SSE BSL SSE Oral Modified Total

7 0 1 1 5 0 0 2 9

8 0 0 1 5 1 0 3 10

9 3 1 1 5 0 0 3 13

10 0 2 0 12 1 0 3 18

11 2 3 3 5 1 1 0 15

Total 5 7 6 32 3 1 11 65

Yes

Is your audiologist deaf aware? 20

Do you ask your audiologist questions? 18

Do you like going to audiology appointments? 16

Do you think the appointments are useful? 15

Oak Lodge the resource

www.projectict.com

Assessment of Sign Supported English (SSE)

Vocabulary

Assessment of SSE

Vocabulary

Syntax and Morphology

Assessment of SSE

VocabularySyntax and Morphology

Sequencing and Memory

Assessment of SSE

VocabularySyntax and Morphology

Sequencing and Memory

Higher level skills

Assessment of SSE

VocabularySyntax and Morphology

Sequencing and Memory

Higher level skills

Assessment of SSE

Vocabulary

• Basic receptive and expressive

• Semantic linking

• Word association

Assessment of SSE

Syntax and Morphology

• Sentence structure

• Word structure

• Sentence formulation

• Comparison with written English

Assessment of SSE

Sequencing and Memory

• Story retell

• Word association

• Familiar sequences

• Recalling sentences

Assessment of SSE

Higher Level Skills

• Inference

• Prediction

• Reasoning

• Non-literal

• Blooms Taxonomy

Assessment Intervention

BSL SSE