Upcoming Events
KEY WORD SIGN WORKSHOP EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
We’re excited to invite expressions of interest for our upcoming Getting Started with Key Word Sign (Basic Workshop) — a practical and engaging training designed to help you support communication using signs and gestures. Whether you're a parent, educator, support worker, or allied health professional, this workshop is ideal for anyone looking to build inclusive and supportive communication strategies.
Our Key Word Sign Trainor, Emily Northcott is planning for future workshops. Emily is a former teacher, a Behaviour Analyst and MICAH Case Manager. She is also passionate about AAC and inclusion across all sectors of peoples lives.
What You’ll Learn:
Up to 80 Key Word Signs and natural gestures
The principles and benefits of Key Word Sign (KWS)
How KWS works alongside other communication systems
The differences between KWS and AUSLAN
Why Join?
This hands-on workshop offers tools you can use immediately to enhance everyday communication with people who benefit from visual and multi-modal supports.
We are currently finalising dates and locations for upcoming sessions in the Bunbury region and surrounding areas.
Register Your Interest:
Let us know you're keen to attend by completing the short form below:
https://forms.gle/tJWJxK7hJxgsTcF69
Once dates are confirmed, we’ll contact you with priority access to register.
Parent Workshop - Making the Invisible Visible - Visual Supports
Our world is made up of many invisible and arbitrary concepts, such as time, social rules and expectations. Making these visible for our Autistic children helps them to understand and participate in the world more successfully.
This parent workshop is a very practical and hands-on workshop where parents will walk away with visual resources that can be used at home, in the community and at school.
Parent Workshop - Emotional Regulation
Emotional regulation is a complex skill and one that is often tricky for our Autistic children. In this workshop, Liz Martin, will support parents to understand the complexity of emotional regulation, a framework for helping our Autistic children understand their emotional states and a toolbox for managing emotions.
Liz will explore the link between emotions, interoception, language, theory of mind and psychological flexibility. Parents will leave with a practical tool and a variety of strategies that they can use to help their child develop emotional regulation skills.
Parent Training - Managing the Meltdowns - Behaviour Strategies
This parent workshop will focus on understanding our children’s behaviours, how to prevent meltdowns, how to increase tolerance of tricky triggers, how to navigate a meltdown and how to reset after.
Liz Martin, will guide families through the science behind behaviour. Through her experience as a Behaviour Analyst working with many families and a mother herself of Autistic children, Liz will focus on the reality of parenting an Autistic child and practical strategies for everyday life.
Parent Training - Autism - THE PARENT’S JOURNEY
Join us for a workshop that dives deep into the unique journey of parenting a child with autism. Deepen your knowledge of your child's unique autism profile, explore how autism impacts families, and some tools to support caregivers' mental health and wellbeing.
Liz Martin, a mother of two Autistic children, a former teacher, current Behaviour Analyst and Neurodiverse individual, will share insights into her own journey, what she has learned raising two children with different Autism profiles and strategies she uses so that she see the joy in life.