Webinar 4: Coaching Parents of Deaf Children in a Virtual World

Course evaluation summary

Number of Participants: 42
Number of Respondents: 11

Overall Assessment:

Will you do anything differently as a result of this webinar?

More joint planning with parents for each session and more focus on listening activities. Trying to collaborate well with others but will keep working on this!
Trying to bring my Line Managers on board for creating telepractice sessions with our younger pupils.
Attend the next session and investigate if feasible to do foundation AVT course.
Focusing on listening without clues with children who are rehab.
Think about integrating an AV approach to my sessions.
Not go to a session with my own agenda and bag of ideas but give more control to the parent.
Look at the foundation course content for AV.
Look to explore AVT more and relate to my work with Early Intervention.
Not really, this helped to reinforce what I already do. However, I came away with some ideas to add to my "repertoire".
Look into AV techniques and training. Research more ideas on working with very young deaf children.

What was best about the webinar?

All very useful.
Frances and Maria Vittoria's section was very interesting and useful, and Ros' take was amazing.
Roz. (Parent input)
Seeing the videos was really helpful, and seeing how the therapists coached the parents.
Really interesting and well organised.
The variety of presentations and real life videos.
Hearing lots of personal experience and expertise.
Being given practical ideas and advise about what to put in parent sessions.
Clarity of the modelling and explanation of the processes.
Hearing from practitioners and a parent. Videos were good. Also once again highlighting (for me) the postcode lottery in terms of how support is given to wee ones who are deaf, and their families - there is no national approach/pathway.
Watching the coaching sessions.
Having presenters with different areas of expertise, e.g. ToD, parent etc.

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

I felt Larissa's section, although useful to know, was more of an advert to sign up, which is not what I was expecting.
More details prior to webinar.
It was a lot to take in all at once, esp at the end of the day.
Less time spend trying to "sell" the AV course.

How did you hear about this course?

SSC direct email: 10
Line Manager: 1

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

Working with deaf children who are on the autistic spectrum .
Congenital Cytomegalovirus - what it is, the impacts on a child, how to explain it to families and teachers.
Training for Heads of Service who are not qualified ToDs or QTVIs - a whistle stop tour so they understand the importance of a discrete service for HI/VI children and pupils and feel able to defend /promote this.

Technical Feedback

How would you rate the webinar technology? 4.5/5

Any comments on the technical aspects

I found the sound to be perfect when the speakers were on, however their cameras were frozen.
The subtitles were distracting as the content was wrong throughout!