YAIS plans to deliver a combination of face to face and online training courses in 2024. Details below. New courses will be added at a later date, please continue to check for updates.
Online Information Morning for Local Professionals
Date tbc
For anyone working with children with cochlear implants.
This course is an adapted version of our Information Morning for Local Professionals. It will be in three parts on the same morning with short breaks between each. The course will cover the pre-implant assessment process, programming and expectations post-implant.
Online Extended Listening Skills
Date tbc
For teaching assistants, class teachers and other ‘non-specialists’, as well as teachers of the deaf, working with children who have had their cochlear implants for three years or more and who are able to engage in simple conversations with familiar people.
This is an adapted version of our Extended Listening Skills course and aims to refresh awareness of stages of auditory perception / learning to listen and to develop awareness / provide practical ideas for continued development of listening skills. E.g. listening in noise, localisation skills, improving auditory memory, participating in conversations, using the telephone.
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Please contact Joanne Smith (joanne.smith2@bthft.nhs.uk) for more information regarding paediatric courses.