Jane Farrall Consulting - Page 6 - Literacy, AAC & Assistive Technology

What Did I See? A story about things that float.

Apr 2, 20201 Comment

A couple of days ago Beenleigh Special School wrote about a poster their school nurse, Lisa, found in the back of her cupboard. They shared this with all of us on their Facebook page. And just so you get the context, here's a copy of the poster. This started a discussion about writing a book

I Don't Like Farts! Book to share

Apr 1, 2020

After my recent visit to Durham Road School, the awesome Mary-Louise Bertram suggested that I share this book. She thought some of you might enjoy it as much as she did - or maybe it was her students and staff who enjoyed it....... And so I present - "I don't like Farts!". Please download it

New website: Comprehensive Literacy for ALL

Mar 31, 20206 Comments

For the last couple of months I have been working on a new resource for the schools I work with. Recently I've had a bit more quality time to work on it (for some reason)! As a result, it is now finished and ready to share - and given the current situation I've decided to

AAC at Home

Mar 30, 2020

Following my last post on Reading at Home, I had a few requests for an simple AAC at Home poster for parents who are just getting started. Jodie at Adelaide West Special Education Centre was the first off the mark - and since their school has students mostly using PODD or Proloquo2Go, those are the

Reading At Home

Mar 22, 20203 Comments

As schools across the world are closing down in response to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, many educators are being asked to prepare home schooling programs. Later this week I'll be publishing some resources around this - but for the moment I've had a request from The Grove Education Centre for a simple pamphlet about

Building Language Through Emergent Writing

Feb 6, 20204 Comments

This is the third and final video I'll be sharing from the Angelman UK 2019 Communication and Literacy Conference. This presentation focuses on the importance of emergent writing for each and every individual to develop as a writer. It also talks about how writing, like all the other areas of literacy, has a reciprocal relationship

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

Communication: The Sky's the Limit

Feb 1, 2020

In October last year I was lucky to be invited to attend the Angelman UK Communication and Literacy Conference in Coventry in the UK. It was the second time that Angelman UK ran a conference focused on these areas - and they were kind enough to video my plenary presentation on "Communication: The Sky's the

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 -