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.
Introduction to Auditory Verbal Therapy
Monday 15th April COURSE NOW FULL
Auditory Verbal UK (AVUK), together with the Yorkshire Auditory Implant Service (YAIS) will be hosting a day course on using Auditory Verbal strategies to maximise listening and spoken language with preschool deaf children and their parents.
The course tutor will be Noel Kenely, Senior Auditory Verbal Therapist at AVUK.
Course attendees will learn how to use a range of AV strategies to support deaf children and their families with:
- Evaluating functional listening
- Scaffolding auditory understanding
- Supporting the development of the first spoken words and phrases
The course will be held at the Yorkshire Auditory Implant Service, at the Bradford Royal Infirmary. On Monday 15th April 11:00 – 15:30.
Attendance on the course is free of charge, but any donations to AVUK will be greatly appreciated.
Places are limited, please contact Joanne Smith or Helen Peebles on 01274 364853 or email
Online Learning to Listen
Wednesday 22nd May 2024 (morning)
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 up to about 4 years.
The online course is an adapted version of our Learning to Listen course. It will be in two parts, both on the same morning, with a short break between the two. Both courses will cover stages of learning to listen and how children can be encouraged to listen to and understand sounds, words and sentences.
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.