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University of Edinburgh
 

SSC Course 19: Deafness and Additional Speech and Language Difficulties

Presented on Wednesday, 27th March 2019

Courses evaluation summary

Number of Participants: 14
Number of Respondents: 14

Overall Assessment:

How would you rate the following: Poor = 1; Excellent = 5

Enhancement to your expertise

      4.3

 

Content and supplementary material

 

    4.5  

Will you do anything differently as a result of today's training?

Yes, feedback to my service. Implement some strategies.
Look into assessing different areas to create SMART targets.
Look at some of the resources to support my teaching.
Use strategies to support young child with language difficulties. Introduce more visuals for him.
Much more aware of the difficulties that children can face, they can be multiple.
Lots of lovely new resources to look at.
Ask for additional resources.
Use of specific resources.  More information breakdown of targets pertaining to specific aspects of language.
Get more comprehensive assessment result from professionals regarding hearing.
Yes, look more into re-engaging with other services in assisting students we work with. Look into new resources.
Investigate more about assessments.
Get an SLT involved in assessing one of my pupils, now that I am confident he has DLD following what I have learned.
Probably not do anything differently but feel reassured that I am doing all the right things. Good to hear the comments from others who are experiencing similar things to myself.

How would you rate the following: Poor = 1; Excellent = 5

Clarity of presentation

      4.8  

Pacing of course/event

      4.9  

What was best about the course/event?

All excellent.
Good discussion, advice, suggestions of resources.
Presenter made the course interesting and relevant. Very well presented.
Lots of information to take in about DLD and hearing impairment.
Talking about impairments and strategies you could use. Resources to use to support learning.
An opportunity to reflect on cases and clarify current thinking on hearing loss and language difficulties.
Discussion of case studies
Overview of topic - definitions etc.
Engaging and informed speaker. Participants from a range of professional backgrounds.
A more developed understanding of how to spot DLD and how to access the relevant services. Looking into where to go next.
Fantastic knowledge of the presenter. Learnt a lot about DLD.
Everything - all relevant. Really helpful to hear a practitioner's experience of children with DLD.
Listening to the case studies shared by presenter.

What, if anything, could have been improved about the course?

Nothing - longer! (3)
Advice on supporting parents. Thank you, great course.
Less noise from next door.
I really enjoyed the course, lots of really useful information.
In future, more info on the assessments that were discussed today.

How did you hear about this course?

Co-ordinator/Line Manager: 3
SSC Course info/leaflet/email: 7
Colleague: 3

What other CPD training would you like the SSC to provide?

Deafness and Dyslexia
Deafness and dyscalculia or number difficulties
Working with the deaf, part 1
Rights/responsibilities of young deaf in employment/further education
Deaf Assessments.
Across Scotland how do services allocate support to their deaf pupils, what criterion, if any, do they use?