Colourful Semantics Training
Course Overview
This interactive workshop explores how you can use Colourful Semantics as a language intervention to support children with SLCN. Colourful Semantics was developed by a speech and language therapist as a method of teaching children to understand and construct
their own sentences using a specific colour coding system. This visually engaging intervention can be used with a range of children both in mainstream and specialist education settings.
their own sentences using a specific colour coding system. This visually engaging intervention can be used with a range of children both in mainstream and specialist education settings.
Why you should…
Colourful Semantics helps children in many ways. Research has shown Colourful Semantics:
· Encourages a wider vocabulary, which improves a child’s comprehension and expressive language skills.
· Helps children develop their use of nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
· Makes children’s sentences longer, so they can better express their thoughts and ideas.
· Improves a child’s narrative, or story-telling, skills. This will help build a child’s critical thinking skills and understanding of things they’ve read.
· Encourages a wider vocabulary, which improves a child’s comprehension and expressive language skills.
· Helps children develop their use of nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
· Makes children’s sentences longer, so they can better express their thoughts and ideas.
· Improves a child’s narrative, or story-telling, skills. This will help build a child’s critical thinking skills and understanding of things they’ve read.
· Narrative skills are also important for a child to be able to tell you about their day and the things that have happened to them.
· Helps children answer questions.
· Helps children answer questions.
All of these skills are critical to a child’s academic success in school. This is why it is so important for education and childcare professionals to have specific training and gain the specialist skills needed to use the Colourful Semantics approach. This will help them support children with Speech and Language Communication Needs to achieve their full potential.
Who is this for?
Our training courses are perfect for education and childcare professionals, such as teachers, teaching assistants, and SENCO’s. The course is also suitable for speech and language therapists and student SLTs.
What you will learn
· Gain an understanding of what Colourful Semantics
· Be able to identify the colours used and what they represent
· Understand the practical implementation considerations for Colourful Semantics
· Learn how this approach can be embedded across the curriculum
· Learn how to make Colourful Semantics interactive and fun for children
· Learn how Colourful Semantics can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
· Gain an understanding of who can benefit from Colourful Semantics
· Be able to identify children who would benefit from the Colourful Semantics intervention approach
· Develop your knowledge and understanding of how to support a child’s progress in developing various sentence structures
· Develop your confidence with incorporating it into lesson plans and adapt the approach to a whole class activity, small group work, or one-to-one intervention
· Be able to identify the colours used and what they represent
· Understand the practical implementation considerations for Colourful Semantics
· Learn how this approach can be embedded across the curriculum
· Learn how to make Colourful Semantics interactive and fun for children
· Learn how Colourful Semantics can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
· Gain an understanding of who can benefit from Colourful Semantics
· Be able to identify children who would benefit from the Colourful Semantics intervention approach
· Develop your knowledge and understanding of how to support a child’s progress in developing various sentence structures
· Develop your confidence with incorporating it into lesson plans and adapt the approach to a whole class activity, small group work, or one-to-one intervention