Course Overview

Our Colourful Semantics training course aims to increase awareness of strategies that develop the comprehension and aid expression of children with Speech and Language Communication Needs. Colourful Semantics is a language intervention developed by a speech and language therapist. It is a method of teaching children to understand and construct their own sentences using specifically coded colours.

This visually engaging intervention can be used with a range of children both in mainstream and specialist education settings. Language difficulties can leave children far behind their peers when they start school, making education much more challenging from the beginning and widening the gap between them and their peers without the necessary support and intervention in place.

By the age of 7, a typically developing child should be able to tell a story with key elements in place including grammatically accurate sentences. However, we know that not all children when leaving KS1 are able to do this, therefore causing a significant impact on the child’s educational success.

Why is it important to take this course?

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. 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.

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 achieve their full potential.

Objectives

What will you learn on the course?

• Gain an understanding of what Colourful Semantics is
• Be able to identify the colours used in Colourful Semantics and what each colour stands for
• 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

What are the benefits of attending this course?

• Be able to identify children who would benefit from the Colourful Semantics intervention approach
• Gain more confidence to work with and support all children in school using the Colourful Semantics approach
• Develop your knowledge and understanding of how to support a child’s progress in developing various sentence structures
• Develop your skills in being creative and innovative in terms of lesson planning and classroom arrangements/displays to incorporate Colourful Semantics
• Be able to adapt the Colourful Semantics approach to a whole class activity, small group work, or one-to-one intervention
• Engage and motivate children more readily in the classroom through the Colourful Semantics approach
• ChatterBug Certificate of Achievement (Used as CPD Training)
• This course allows you to upskill colleagues in your setting
• Opportunities for further questions and access to further support

Audience

Our Colourful Semantics training course, is perfect for education and childcare professionals, such as teachers, teaching assistants and SENCO’s working with children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN). The course is also suitable for speech and language therapists, undergraduate and postgraduate students who are undertaking a degree in the field and looking for support and more information.

Terms & Conditions

Chatterbug Academy is a training sub-brand of Chatterbug Limited. These Terms and Conditions govern the best practices for delivering our training respectfully and in any format. By making a payment, you agree to comply with and be bound by these terms.

1. Attendee Obligations

Attendees are required to have their camera on for the duration of all live training sessions. This helps foster a respectful environment and facilitates interaction between attendees and the trainer. If there are exceptional circumstances where this may not be possible, please notify the Training Coordinator in advance.

2. Payment and Fee

The cost applies per participant and includes VAT (where applicable). Access to the virtual room will be granted only to the email provided during the checkout process. Additional participants are not permitted. Group discounts are available; please contact us for details.

3. All rights reserved

We reserve the right to expel any attendee who fails to comply with these terms and conditions, without prior notice or a refund. Expelled attendees may also be prohibited from future sessions at our discretion.

4. Data protection

All training sessions are recorded for training and promotional purposes. By attending, you consent to being recorded. Please avoid sharing sensitive personal information during the session. We ensure that all recordings are handled in compliance with data protection regulations.

5. Cancellation 

Cancellations can be made up to 5 business days before the session without charge. To cancel, please email [email protected].  No cancellations are allowed within the following period, but we offer the option to reschedule to a future session. Please refer to our Refund Policy for full details.

For cancellations made 3-4 business days before the session, a fee of the price paid will apply. Please see our refund policy for further information.

No cancellations are permitted within 2 business days of live training sessions. However, we offer the option to reschedule to a future session.

6. Refund Policy

Refunds are processed according to our Cancellation Policy. Once your request has been reviewed and approved by our Accounts Department, refunds will be issued within 3-5 business days to the account provided.

7. Intellectual Property Rights

All training materials, including design, content, and production, are the exclusive property of Chatterbug LTD. These materials are provided for personal use only and must not be reproduced, shared, or distributed in any form. Violation of these terms may result in legal action.

8. Force Majeure

In the event of circumstances beyond our control (force majeure), such as extreme weather, government imposed restrictions, or technical issues, we reserve the right to cancel or reschedule training sessions. In such cases, we will inform participants as soon as possible and offer the option to reschedule or refund.

9. Tech Requirements

Attendees are responsible for ensuring they have the necessary technology (stable internet connection, functioning camera, and microphone) to participate in the training. Chatterbug LTD is not responsible for any technical issues on the attendee’s end.

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