Participants will gain information on specific communication challenges, and strategies to use within their own educational settings. Specific emphasis will be placed on the following: speech and language milestones, disorders of the voice, stuttering, augmentative and alternative communication, feeding and swallowing, bilingual and multilingual language development, specific strategies to facilitate communication.

This workshop breaks down what pedagogy is and how it shows up in everyday practice. We discuss the BC ELF, pedagogical choices and we focus on empowerment as we highlight all the pedagogy we embody daily. This workshop discusses the origins and meaning of pedagogy, how it shows up in ECE settings, and all the […]

Compassion in childcare means responding to children with understanding, patience and emotional awareness. It involves seeing behaviour as communication of unmet needs rather than misbehaviour and supporting children with calm, respectful guidance. It also includes using simple, validating language, setting clear but kind boundaries and giving children choices to help them feel safe and in […]

In these hands on, in person, small group workshops we will be exploring a variety of materials at the Abbotsford CCRR. Creatively engage with many different materials in open-ended ways. Different materials will be explored every month. Spending time experimenting with a variety of materials will help educators build confidence in presenting materials to children. […]