SHAPING CHILDREN’S LANGUAGE IN THE CLASSROOM
The Shape Coding™ system was developed in 1998 by Susan Ebbels, a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, at Moor House School, a special secondary school for students with developmental language disorders. The system was developed to enable children to make use of their comparatively good visual skills to learn a variety of grammatical structures.
The system has been widely used in Buckinghamshire, where it has been found to be effective with children from 3 to 18 years with a wide variety of clinical difficulties, including: developmental language disorder, deafness, autistic spectrum disorder, physical difficulties etc.
This workshop is designed to give teaching staff an understanding of the basic principles of the Shape Coding™ system focussing mostly on the various shapes, but also providing information on the use of lines and arrows.
The course aims to enable teaching staff to use the system to:
- teach grammar across the entire school
- develop children’s vocabulary
- support the development of narrative skills
- enable children to check and correct their draft work
- mark children’s work
The workshop, which lasts for 2 hours, can be delivered to up to 30 members of staff on site within the educational setting in a staff meeting, twilight training session or inset day.
Accredited Part 1 Shape Coding courses can be delivered by Glynis Haines either face-to-face or remotely to up to 30 participants at a time but the course needs to be booked by through Moor House School and College by clicking on this link: https://www.moorhouseschool.
Contact Glynis Haines, an Accredited Shape Coding Trainer, to arrange a workshop in your setting