Early Intervention Language Coach Course

Overview and Introduction

Purpose

•To build the capacity of early interventionists to meet the communication needs of young children in a collaborative team approach

•To meet the instructional needs of Early Intervention Language Coach Credential

Values• Communication skills develop within the

framework of overall development

• Young children learn best while actively engaged in their everyday activities

• Team members collaborate in sharing information and in the identification and provision of service delivery

• Early intervention providers can support families to embed intervention strategies into their daily routines

Structure

•Asynchronous Online Instructional Content

•Synchronous Activities with team SLPs and families

•Approximately 30 hours of course instructional content and activities▫5 units @ approximately 6 hours each

Books

•Language Development from Theory to Practice▫Pence & Justice, 2008

•Beyond Baby Talk▫Apel & Masterson, 2001

Units

1. Setting the Stage for Language Development and Intervention

2. Early Communication3. Emerging Language4. Expanding Language5. Communication Coaching

Unit Activities

•Progress in order through the sections of each unit:1. Read2. Observe3. Practice4. Exhibit

•After you have completed a section, you can return to it as many times as you’d like

Read

•Chapter Readings▫Language Development from Theory to

Practice▫Beyond Baby Talk

•Narrated Presentations ▫Presentations can be started, stopped,

paused, rewound, and fast forwarded ▫Can read along with the narration (i.e. view

the transcript) by clicking on “notes”

Observe

•Video Observations▫Narrated video observations▫Links to video observations from relevant

web resources•Live Observations

▫Observe the skills that are presented in the units during your home and community visits

Practice

•Ungraded Learning Checks

•Questions give you an opportunity to practice what you are learning

•You can answer the questions as many times as you’d like

Exhibit

•Display some of the key concepts of the unit in a meaningful manner

•Collaborate with your team SLP

•Submitted through “Submission” link in the Exhibit section

•Graded according to rubric included in the description and instructions

•Returned to you with grade and feedback

Course Information Section

•In each unit, a 5th section “Course Information” is included

•Language Coach Course Overview•“How To” Guides •Resource Folder

▫Links to relevant and interesting web resources

▫Supports and expands the course content

First Activities: Pre-Course

•Before starting to read or look through course materials, please log in to the course, go to the Unit 1 “Course Information” section and complete ▫Pre-Course Case Study▫Pre-Course Survey

•Now you are ready to start with the “Read” section of Unit 1

Final Activity: Videos

•Specific Instructions in the Unit 5 Course Information Section▫Select a family with which you have been

applying what you are learning▫Explain the purpose of the course and ask

if you could video record a session Sign the Permission for Educational Use of

Video form Ask the family to sign Permission for

Educational Use of Video form

Final Activity: Videos•Video record a session

•Complete the Final Videos Questions

•Submit your video according to the instructions in the “Final Videos Description and Instructions” ▫Located in the Course Information section for

Unit 5

Final Activities: Videos

•1st Video▫Submitted at the completion of the 5th unit▫No later than January 31, 2011

•2nd Video▫Recorded & submitted approximately 1

month after the 1st video▫No later than February 28, 2011▫Different family from 1st video or same

family with different routines

Tech Requirements

•Required Downloads▫Adobe Flash

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/▫Quicktime

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▫Mozilla Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html

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