Including Little Learners Series: Best Practices in Communicating with Infants and Toddlers
Date/Time
Date(s) - Wednesday, January 27, 2021
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Join us for a professional development event designed to help you support children birth to three years old who have special needs. This event is funded by the Maryland State Department of Education. Thanks to this funding, the registration fee for this event is only $5.
This professional development series consists of one 3-hour training session, and two 1-hour follow up technical assistance sessions. The series is designed to encourage in-depth learning that supports each participant’s ability to implement strategies and techniques that support infants and toddlers with special needs. In order to receive a certificate of completion for core of knowledge hours, providers MUST attend the entire series, including both technical assistance sessions.
Training Session
What Should We Talk About? Best Practices in Communicating with Infants and Toddlers -This training is designed to provide participants with a variety of communication tools they can embed into their daily practices to support the language development of infants and toddlers. Through a series of activities, teachers will gain skills and confidence to use new skills when they return to their programs.
Training Date:
January 27, 2021 (6:30 pm-9:30 pm)
Core of Knowledge Area: Child Development (2 hours) and Special Needs (1 hour)
Technical Assistance Sessions
Enhanced Technical Assistance for this series will be provided in partnership with the Hearing and Speech Agency. A speech language pathologist will be the guest speaker during each technical assistance session, offering insight and expertise on providing care for young children who have communication delays and disorders. Attendance at BOTH sessions is required to receive a certificate.
Technical Assistance Dates:
2/10/21 – 6:30pm-7:30pm
2/24/21 – 6:30pm-7:30pm
Core of Knowledge Area: Professionalism (2 hours)
**Certificates for the entire series are given AFTER the second technical assistance session, please plan accordingly.**
***THIS TRAINING IS AN ONLINE TRAINING FORMAT***
You will receive an email with the webinar, handouts, and Zoom link 24 hours before the training. If you do not receive an email by that time, please contact Kim Locke at klocke@abilitiesnetwork.org.
Each participant will need individual access to a computer, smartphone or tablet. Specific webinar access details will be sent prior to the training.
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Webinar Platform: ZOOM
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There will be a knowledge measure and training evaluation provided via Survey Monkey. The knowledge measure and training evaluation are required components of the webinar and have to be completed in order to receive a certificate of completion.
Register for Training
This event is full.