Literacy – Page 6 – Jane Farrall Consulting

Literacy and Complex Communication Needs: Developing Language

Feb 3, 20202 Comments

This is the second video I’m sharing from the Angleman UK 2019 Communication & Literacy Conference. Thanks again to Angelman UK and See Speak Hear for making this available. In the beginning of my career, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) rapidly became the area of speech language pathology that interested me the most. I enjoyed

Bushfire Texts

Jan 21, 20202 Comments

Many Australian schools are heading back for the first term of the school year in the next couple of weeks and I know lots of teachers are putting the finishing touches on their preparation for the coming weeks. Unfortunately, as everyone in Australia knows, bushfires have been a dominating feature of our summer holidays –

Let’s Chat with Personalised Alphabet Cards

Jan 20, 20206 Comments

Last October, Sally Clendon and I ran a literacy course at Currumbin Community Special School. The school were fabulous hosts – and while we were there, we were able to see many of the great resources they use. One which particularly impressed us was their personalised alphabet cards. They credited me with this idea –

2020 Literacy Intensives

Nov 28, 2019

Due to the very high level of interest in the 2019 Literacy Intensive, we will be offering the course twice in 2020 for the first time! The Literacy For All Intensive Course is a 5-day instructional course that covers theoretical and practical aspects of comprehensive literacy instruction for children and adults with disabilities, including complex

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. Always display content from SlideShare

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

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