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Who Tipped the Bike?

Nov 3, 20192 Comments

Following a few requests after the last blog post from Kayla McAllister “Writing: It’s more than just marks on a page” – here’s the book that Nina composed to win her award. Enjoy! Display content from SlideShare Click here to display content from SlideShare. Learn more in SlideShare’s privacy policy (opens in a new tab).

Writing: It’s More Than Just Marks on a Page

Oct 28, 20195 Comments

Note from Jane: Thanks so much to Kayla McAllister, teacher extraordinaire, for writing this wonderful blog post focusing on one of her students. When I was in Year 7, I was awarded a prize in a book writing competition run by my school’s local council. The pride I felt on that night as the Mayor

Angelman UK Communication and Literacy Conference

Oct 13, 20194 Comments

For the last three days I have been so privileged to be at the Angelman UK Communication and Literacy Conference in Coventry, England. It was awesome to see some people again and to meet some new people. Thanks to all who attended and to the amazing Trustees who put this event together! Here are copies

Using the Developmental Writing Scale. #AGOSCI2019

Sep 1, 2019

Yesterday I was honoured to present again with Molly Sharp from The Grove Education Centre at the 2019 AGOSCI Conference in Perth, Western Australia. The Developmental Writing Scale (Sturm et al, 2012) allows us to track a student’s writing progress from emergent to conventional with a 14 point scale. Additionally, it is the first writing

The Communication Matrix: Using The Communication Matrix to assess and plan communication development. #AGOSCI2019

Aug 30, 2019

This afternoon I was delighted to present with Molly Sharp, an amazing teacher from an outstanding school, The Grove Education Centre. Our presentation was around using the Communication Matrix as a tool to assess and guide our communication intervention, practice, goals and future plans. As promised during the session, we are sharing the PowerPoint and

Building Language Through Emergent Writing: #AGOSCI2019

Aug 29, 20192 Comments

Today was the first day of the 2019 AGOSCI Conference in Perth WA. It was an awesome day, starting with a very interesting (and awe inspiring) plenary presentation by Professor Janice Murray and then breaking up into a number of concurrent streams. I presented a workshop on “Building Language Through Emergent Writing” and promised the

We’re Going on an Alphabet Hunt

Apr 21, 2019

A couple of weeks ago I was privileged to be involved with the first AAC Camp at Bullimbal School in Tamworth. I was delighted to work with the amazing staff and students at Bullimbal School. I also got to hang out with the OT with the mostest, Fiona Beauchamp, and my favourite speech pathologist, Helen

2019 Literacy Intensive

Feb 11, 2019

Great news! The 2019 Literacy Intensive course presented by myself (Jane Farrall) and Dr Sally Clendon is now open for registrations! Details Dates: Monday 30th September – Friday 4th of October Location Currumbin Community Special School, Currumbin 5 Hammersford Drive, Currumbin Waters, QLD 4223 Cost $1600 (includes morning tea, lunch and tea/coffee each day plus

Tools for Writing: a Suggestion and Selection Guide

Jan 30, 201919 Comments

For many of the students I work with, some of whom have complex communication needs and/or relatively limited experiences of generating language, writing presents many challenges. To develop writing skills they need to learn to generate an idea, to think about language, think about the words, the spelling, controlling their “pencil”, etc. For many people,

Teaching to the Next Level: Using the Developmental Writing Scale to guide instruction

Jan 19, 20199 Comments

My last blog post was about “Using the Developmental Writing Scale for Writing Assessment”. This blog post is going to focus on how you can use it to help guide your instruction once you have used it to determine where your students’ writing levels are at! Just to repeat a little bit of information