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Basic Training – Split Session – Virtual – 21st Feb & 28th Feb 2025
Presented by: Tanya Jarvis
Date: Friday 21st February & Friday 28th February 2025
Time: 9:00am – 12:30pm
Location: Online via zoomKey Word Sign (KWS) can be used to support individuals with communication difficulties to understand and get their message across to others.
In this workshop, you will learn the principles of KWS and gesture, who it can be used with and how it can be used alongside other ways of communicating. You will also learn up to 80 new signs along with common natural gestures, with opportunities to practice in a safe & fun group environment. You will leave the workshop with a detailed plan of the next steps in your KWS journey, as well as a host of helpful resources to support your learning.
This workshop is presented online.
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Basic Training – full day – face to face – Friday 21st February
Presented by: Melanie Robartson
Date: Friday 21st February 2025
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Location: Burswood, Western AustraliaKey Word Sign (KWS) can be used to support individuals with communication difficulties to understand and get their message across to others.
In this workshop, you will learn the principles of KWS and gesture, who it can be used with and how it can be used alongside other ways of communicating. You will also learn up to 80 new signs along with common natural gestures, with opportunities to practice in a safe & fun group environment. You will leave the workshop with a detailed plan of the next steps in your KWS journey, as well as a host of helpful resources to support your learning.
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Basic Training – full day – face to face – 22nd Feb 2025
Presented by: Amy Southwood
Date: Saturday 22nd February 2025
Time: 9:00 – 4:30 ACST
Location: Somerville Community Services – 147 Lee Point Road Wagaman NT 0810You’ll learn all the tips and tricks needed to get you started with signing. A fun and interactive workshop set to leave you feeling inspired and ready to sign!
You will learn:– How we communicate using natural gestures
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– The features of sign production (HOLME)
– To recognise and accurately produce the signs in Interactive Vocabulary (Parts 1 and 2)
– How to identify the key words to sign in a spoken sentence
– How to use speech and sign / natural gesture within functional communication activities with basic accuracy and fluency -
Basic Training – full day – face to face – Tuesday 25th February 2025
Presented by: Sudi Gowen
Date: Tuesday 25th February 2025
Time: 9:30 – 4:00pm
Location: Hanrahan Health – Suite 2, 12-14 Warby Street, Campbelltown NSWKey Word Sign (KWS) can be used to support individuals with communication difficulties to understand and get their message across to others.
In this workshop, you will learn the principles of KWS and gesture, who it can be used with and how it can be used alongside other ways of communicating. You will also learn up to 80 new signs along with common natural gestures, with opportunities to practice in a safe & fun group environment. You will leave the workshop with a detailed plan of the next steps in your KWS journey, as well as a host of helpful resources to support your learning.
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Basic Training – full day – face to face – Tuesday 25th February
Presented by: Bryce Agland
Date: Tuesday 25th February 2025
Time: 9:30am – 4:00pm AEDT
Location: The Disability Trust Head Office – 5 Edney Lane, Spring Hill, NSWKey Word Sign (KWS) can be used to support individuals with communication difficulties to understand and get their message across to others.
In this workshop, you will learn the principles of KWS and gesture, who it can be used with and how it can be used alongside other ways of communicating. You will also learn up to 80 new signs along with common natural gestures, with opportunities to practice in a safe & fun group environment. You will leave the workshop with a detailed plan of the next steps in your KWS journey, as well as a host of helpful resources to support your learning.
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Basic Training – Full Day Workshop – 1st March 2025
Presented by: Debbie Burmester
Date: Saturday 1st March 2025
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm (AEST)
Location: Maheno Room, St John The Baptist Anglican Church 177 Oxford Street, Bulimba, QLD 4171Key Word Sign (KWS) can be used to support individuals with communication difficulties to understand and get their message across to others.
In this workshop, you will learn the principles of KWS and gesture, who it can be used with and how it can be used alongside other ways of communicating. You will also learn up to 80 new signs along with common natural gestures, with opportunities to practice in a safe & fun group environment. You will leave the workshop with a detailed plan of the next steps in your KWS journey, as well as a host of helpful resources to support your learning.
This workshop is an in person, full day event
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Basic Training – full day – face to face – Saturday 1st March
Presented by: Pashenka Gribbin
Date: Saturday 1st March 2025
Time: 9:00 – 4:00pm
Location: Level 1, Building 11, University of Wollongong Main Campus, Northfields Ave, Wollongong NSW 2500Key Word Sign (KWS) can be used to support individuals with communication difficulties to understand and get their message across to others.
You’ll learn all the tips and tricks needed to get you started with signing. A fun and interactive workshop set to leave you feeling inspired and ready to sign!
You will learn:
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– How we communicate using natural gestures
– The features of sign production (HOLME)
– To recognise and accurately produce the signs in Interactive Vocabulary (Parts 1 and 2)
– How to identify the key words to sign in a spoken sentence
– How to use speech and sign / natural gesture within functional communication activities with basic accuracy and fluency -
Basic Training – split session – virtual – 4th & 11th March 2025
Presented by: Key Word Sign Victoria
Date: 4th and 11th of March 2025
Time: 9.30am – 1.00pm AEDT
Location: Online via zoomKey Word Sign (KWS) can be used to support individuals with communication difficulties to understand and get their message across to others.
In this workshop, you will learn the principles of KWS and gesture, who it can be used with and how it can be used alongside other ways of communicating. You will also learn up to 80 new signs along with common natural gestures, with opportunities to practice in a safe & fun group environment. You will leave the workshop with a detailed plan of the next steps in your KWS journey, as well as a host of helpful resources to support your learning.
This workshop is presented online.
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Advanced Workshop – virtual full day – 12 March 2025
Presented by: Leigha Dark, Key Word Sign Australia
Date: Wednesday 12 MARCH 2025
Time: 09:00am – 5:00pm (AEDT)
Location: OnlineIn this advanced course, you will further build your knowledge of key word sign and gesture by exploring instructional techniques such as modelling, incidental teaching, and explicit teaching to support learning and use of key word sign by others. You will also learn strategies for supporting communication partners around an individual, including models of coaching, mentoring, and design of individualised sign support resources.
The focus of this course is on spontaneous use of sign with accuracy and fluency within individual, small group, and whole group activities. You will learn between 80 -100 news signs and use known vocabulary within functional communication activities.
This workshop is presented online and is a full day.
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Sip ‘n’ Sign – Thursday 13th March 2025
Finished a Basic Key Word Sign Workshop?
Want to keep up your signing skills?
Come along to our FREE Sip ‘n’ Sign sessions!Time: 7:30 pm to 8.30 pm (AEDT)
Date: Thursday 13th March 2025These online sessions are open to anyone who has completed a Basic Key Word Sign workshop.
Bring along a glass of your favourite beverage, and have a bit of fun while you:
• Review signs learned in your basic workshop
• Work on sign accuracy & fluency
• Brainstorm questions about using KWS in your home or workplaceNo RSVP required. Just jump onto the zoom link –which will open at 7:20 pm, ready for a prompt 7:30 start.
For information or enquiries please contact: admin@keywordsignvictoria.org
Key Word Sign Australia is a registered business of Scope (Aust) Ltd