Course curriculum

  • 1

    Speech and language development for individuals with Down syndrome - the challenges and reasons for optimism

    • Presentation 1: Speech and language development for individuals with Down syndrome - the challenges and reasons for optimism

    • Assessment 1: Speech and language development for individuals with Down syndrome

    • Checklist 1: Speech and language development for individuals with Down syndrome

    • Resources and references 1: Speech and language development – the challenges and reasons for optimism
  • 2

    Understanding and improving working memory

    • Presentation 2: Understanding and improving working memory

    • Assessment 2: Understanding and improving working memory

    • Checklist 2: Understanding and improving working memory

    • Resources and references 2: Understanding and improving working memory
  • 3

    What can we learn from intervention research?

    • Presentation 3: What can we learn from intervention research?

    • Assessment 3: What can we learn from intervention research?

    • Checklist 3: What can we learn from intervention research?

    • Resources and references 3: What can we learn from intervention research?
  • 4

    Effective training for parents, carers and educators

    • Presentation 4: Effective training for parents, carers and educators

    • Assessment 4: Effective training for parents, carers and educators

    • Checklist 4: Effective training for parents, carers and educators

    • Resources and references 4: Effective training for parents, carers and educators
  • 5

    Assessments, planning and monitoring interventions

    • Presentation 5: Assessments, planning and monitoring interventions

    • Assessment 5: Assessments, planning and monitoring interventions

    • Checklist 5: Checklists, planning and monitoring interventions

    • Resources and references 5: Assessments, planning and monitoring interventions
  • 6

    Developing communication skills and social use of language

    • Presentation 6: Developing communication skills and social use of language

    • Assessment 6: Developing communication skills and social use of language

    • Checklist 6: Developing communication skills and social use of language

    • Resources and references 6: Developing communication skills and the social use of language
  • 7

    Teaching and extending vocabulary

    • Presentation 7: Teaching and extending vocabulary

    • Assessment 7: Teaching and extending vocabulary

    • Checklist 7: Teaching and extending vocabulary

    • Resources and references 7: Teaching and extending vocabulary
  • 8

    Teaching sentences and grammar

    • Presentation 8: Teaching sentences and grammar

    • Assessment 8: Teaching sentences and grammar

    • Checklist 8: Teaching sentences and grammar

    • Resources and references 8: Teaching sentences and grammar
  • 9

    Supporting speech development and improving intelligibility

    • Presentation 9: Supporting speech development and improving intelligibility

    • Checklist 9: Supporting speech development and improving intelligibility

    • Assessment 9: Supporting speech development and improving intelligibility

    • Resources and references 9: Supporting speech development and improving intelligibility
  • 10

    Next steps – developing better services and resources

    • Presentation 10: Next steps – developing better services and resources

    • Checklist 10: Next steps – developing better services and resources

    • Assessment 10: Next steps – developing better services and resources

    • Resources and references 10: Next steps – developing better services and resources