Early Communication

Team Workshops

Inspire and support your team to include children with communication difficulties and help all children thrive.

Early Communication Workshops for Teams
Chat Play Fly workshops help build knowledge in your team, inspire and create opportunities for your team to critically reflect on their practice.

Starting from only $195.

It's more than a workshop
How it works...

1

Build your workshop/s

Choose your topic, session length and date/location.

2

Learn in a live session

Your team learns through the online or face-to-face live workshop.

3

Be supported to embed

Your team can email questions and use our toolkit to continue learning.

What topic will support your team?
Work with Cathryn to build a workshop that aligns with your service goals or select from a popular topic.

Your Tailored Workshop

Work with Cathryn to build a workshop that aligns with what your team would like to know and how your team likes to learn.

Supporting Bilingual Language Learners In The Early Years Setting

Learn strategies to help a bilingual child settle in and develop their language skills. We'll also cover the research around raising bilingual children, so you can answer parent's questions on this topic.

Using Picture Supports for Smoother Transitions

Picture supports can help children understand what is happening in their day and feel heard. Learn how to use picture supports to help children navigate their day.

Connecting With A Child Showing Traits of Autism

Learn how to respectfully connect and engage with a child who is diagnosed or showing traits of Autism. This pairs well with Partnering with Families Workshop.

Partnering with Families When You Have Concerns About a Child's Development

Learn a framework to confidently share your concerns about a child's development in a way that helps the family feel safe to collaborate with your team.

Helping Toddlers Be Effective Communicators

Learn how to extend children's language within experiences and routines, when they are mostly communicating with single words or short combinations.

Helping Nursery Children Be Effective Communicators

Learn how to extend children's language when they are mostly communicating with sounds and gestures.

The Power of Using Gestures, from Nursery to Kinder

Learn about AUSLAN vs Key Word Sign vs natural gesture. Learn how to use gesture to support positive toddler interactions, children with pronunciation difficulties, ESL, comprehension difficulties or learning to talk.

Supporting Peer Interactions in the Nursery and Toddler Environments

Learn about ways to optimise the learning environment to promote interactions between children and how to choose social language to model for children in play.

Help your team feel confident and inspired today! Book a free chat to discuss your workshop today

BOOK A CHAT

or email for details

It's more than a workshop
The details...

1. Initial planning session

We will have an initial chat to plan your ideal workshop!

Choose your topic
See options above for a popular topic. Alternatively, we can arrange a longer planning session so I can learn more about your service and goals and we can build a session to suit.
Choose the length
Any of the sessions can be delivered in a 1 hour or 2 hour format. The longer the session, the more detail that can be included and more opportunity for discussion and practice.
Confirm date and location
Sessions can be delivered in person or online, depending on location.

2. Learn in live workshops

Your team will attend the live session or sessions.

They can access the session via our portal, no downloads required. Depending on location, the session could be in person.

In these sessions, they will learn about the topic and have opportunities to ask questions and discuss ideas with other educators in the session.

NOTE: This can be recorded if online.

3. Be supported to embed strategies

For 5 weeks following the session, your team will have access to the following supports:

Explainer audio or video clips
To remind them of key strategies covered
4 part planning prompts
To help them use each strategy
Guided reflections
So they can make adjustments and get the most out of each strategy
Speechie-on-call
For the questions that come up after the session. They can contact Speech Pathologist, Cathryn, to ask any questions that come up.

Pricing

	Popular Topic (1hr) $195	Popular Topic (2hrs) $390	Tailored Workshop $680
Preparation
1 hr consultation to plan professional learning to meet your goals			✔

Live Workshops
1 hr live workshop	✔
2 hrs of live workshops		✔	✔

Follow up resources and support
Explainer audio / video clips	up to 5	up to 8	up to 8
4 part planning prompts	up to 5	up to 8	up to 8
Guided reflections	up to 5	up to 8	up to 8
Email follow up for questions	✔	✔	✔

Ready to go?! Book a free chat to discuss your workshop today

BOOK A CHAT

or email for details

Frequently Asked Questions

Absolutely. We can tailor professional learning to what your team needs. A series of workshops gives the opportunity to reflect on past learning and helps with accountability, knowing that there is a follow up ahead! Book a chat with Cathryn to talk about what you are looking for.

We can if you book and pay for more than one workshop. This could be across services, or within one service. Book a chat with Cathryn to discuss how we can help you.

Yes. When you book our tailored workshop package, you will have a meeting with Cathryn to discuss what your team's professional learning goals are, how they like to learn and their previous experience on the topic. Then the workshop is designed to suit your team.

Either book a chat via the link above, or email us at [email protected].

We'd still love to help!

Our Early Communication Toolkit and Nurture Membership offer professional development around early communication. There are group pricing options that are a lower cost than a workshop depending on the number of educators on your team.

We also regularly post new articles on our website around early communication topics. These are free for you to share with your team! Email us a question and we could answer it via the blog.

Start connecting today with your Early Years Communication Starter Pack

TOOLKIT SAMPLER: Answer a few questions and we'll recommend a tailored list of strategies to help a child with communication difficulties

QUICK GUIDE: 5 Easy Word Swaps that Build Strong Family Partnerships

FACTSHEET SERIES: Communication Milestones from the Child's Perspective