Jane Farrall Consulting

Working with Letters, Sounds and Words in our Classrooms

May 28, 20154 Comments

Working with letters, sounds and words are important components of literacy instruction in our classrooms. Emergent students need explicit and incidental instruction around the alphabet and sounds, to improve their alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness. Conventional students need to learn how words work. Below is a checklist I use with teachers in working through the

Self-Selected Reading in Our Classrooms

May 21, 20154 Comments

Self-selected reading is often seen as the easiest literacy block. However, to develop a student’s love of reading requires careful resource curation and an awareness of their interests and preferences. Below is a checklist I use with teachers in working through the self-selected reading block in their classroom. The two main guiding rules are: It

Literacy Through Curriculum: Using the Australian Curriculum as a Springboard for Literacy

May 16, 20151 Comment

It’s the final day of #AGOSCI2015 – I’m always sad when a fabulous conference ends! But I love all the great ideas and tips I’ve learned that I get to go back and try! And AGOSCI is always so practical – which is one of the reasons it’s one of my favourite conferences 🙂 My

AAC and Literacy in Partnership to Develop Language

May 15, 2015

Today I was lucky enough to present at the AGOSCI 2015 National Conference with the amazing Helen Tainsh on using literacy and AAC intervention to develop language. Helen works in both early intervention at the Cerebral Palsy Education Centre and in private practice, where she supports a number of students in mainstream schools. Currently, I’m

Self-Selected Reading: Books for Every Reader

May 15, 20151 Comment

The AGOSCI Conference continued today. My first presentation for the day was with the fabulous Sally Clendon on the topic of Self-Selected Reading. As promised, the handout for the presentation is shared here. Display content from SlideShare Click here to display content from SlideShare. Learn more in SlideShare’s privacy policy. Always display content from SlideShare

Do’s and Dont’s of Implementing Real Communication Through AAC

May 14, 20158 Comments

Today I was delighted to present with David Niemeijer from AssistiveWare on this topic on the first day of the AGOSCI National Conference. As promised during the presentation, the handout can be accessed here. For those of you who can’t be at the conference – check out lots of great information on Twitter using the

AAC: Systemic Change for Individual Success

May 14, 20154 Comments

Last year I wrote a blog post about AAC: Systemic Change for Individual Success. This is something I feel very strongly about – so I also submitted it as a presentation for this year’s National AGOSCI Conference. The presentation was today, Day 1 of #AGOSCI2015 – and I promised those attending that I would share

AAC apps list updated

Apr 16, 201515 Comments

Updated to add: The AAC Apps list has been discontinued. I’m very pleased to say that I have just updated the AAC apps list again! This time 106 of the existing apps have been updated and there are 23 new apps. You can see a list of all the Additions and Updates by clicking here.

Switch Accessible Apps List: Updated!

Mar 7, 201511 Comments

Updated to add: The Switch Accessible Apps List has been discontinued. It has been quite some time since we updated our switch accessible apps list – nearly 18 months in fact! During this time we have been focusing on the Switch Control built into iOS and learning the range of options it now provides.

Keedogo & Keedogo Plus: Custom Keyboards for the iPad

Oct 26, 20145 Comments

Recently Apple released iOS8 – and once again there were a number of accessibility features added with this update. For a round up of accessibility changes and additions check out the excellent summary from AbleNet – iOS8 Accessibility. One of the new features is the ability for developers to create their own onscreen keyboards for