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Basic Training – Split Session Virtual – Wednesday 19th & 26th March 2025
Presented by: Key Word Sign Victoria
Date: Wednesday 19th and 26th 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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Basic Training – split session – virtual – 22nd & 29th March 2025
Presented by: Key Word Sign Victoria
Date: 22nd and 29th 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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Basic training – full day – face to face – 22nd March 2025
Presented by: Tania Teitzel and Jacqueline Sullivan
Date: Saturday 22nd March, 2025
Time: 8:45am – 4:00pm AEST
Location: Therapy Matters Suite 3, 43 Tallebudgera Creek Road Burleigh Heads QLD 4220You’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 -
Intermediate Training – split session – virtual – 28th March & 4th April 2025
Presented by: Key Word Sign Victoria
Date: 28th March and 4th April 2025
Time: 9.30am – 1.00pm AEDT
Location: Online via zoomIn this intermediate key word sign course, you will build your knowledge of key word sign and gesture in familiar, everyday activities, routines, games and songs. You will learn about how to create a sign environment using strategies and resources to encourage and support the use of sign.
The focus of this course is building your skills in signing accuracy and fluency through individual, small group, and whole group activities. You will revise the signs of the Interactive Vocabulary learned in ‘Getting Started with Key Word Sign’ and learn between 80 -100 news signs.
This workshop is presented online across two half day sessions.
What training can I do next?
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After you have completed the ‘Using Key Word Sign in Daily Life’ course, you can progress to the Advanced qualification ‘Teaching Others to Use Key Word Sign’. This is offered only as a full day online workshop. -
Basic Training – split session – virtual – 1st April and 8th April 2025
Presented by: Tanya Jarvis
Date: Tuesday 1st of April and Tuesday 8th April 2025
Time: Tuesday 1st of April – 9.00am – 12.30pm AEDT
Tuesday 8th April 9.00am – 12.30pm AEST
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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Sip ‘n’ Sign – Tuesday 1st April 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: Tuesday 1st April 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
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Intermediate Training – full day – face to face – 5th April 2025
Presented by: Key Word Sign South Australia
Date: 5 April 2025
Time: 9:00 – 4:30 ACDT
Location: C.a.F.E Enfield Pateela Street Enfield SA 5085You’ll learn all the tips and tricks needed to continue your signing journey. A fun and interactive workshop set to leave you feeling confident in your signing ability!
The Intermediate Workshop provides you with the next step in building your skills in signing accuracy and fluency.In the Intermediate Workshop you will learn:
– How to build your knowledge of key word sign and gesture including how to select and individualise signs
– How to tailor and apply the information to your own personal circumstances and settings
– Between 60 – 80 new signs aligned with topics such as: food, colours, animals, people, places, actions and numbersThis workshop is suitable for those that have completed the Getting Started with Key Word Sign (basic) workshop and are interested in strengthening their signing ability.
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Getting Started with Key Word Sign Training – Wednesday 9th April 2025 – blended workshop
Presented by: Marion Van Nierop, Key Word Sign Australia
Date: Wednesday 9th April 2025
Time: 10:30am – 3:30pm AEDT
Location: OnlineIn this introductory key word sign course, you will learn about the principles of key word sign and gesture, who it can be used with and how it can be used alongside other ways of communicating. You will understand how key word sign is different to Auslan, the language of the Deaf Community in Australia.
In the practical component of the course you will learn up to 80 new signs along with common natural gestures. You will have the opportunity to practice using speech and signs together in interactive activities, building your skills in a safe and fun group environment. You will leave the workshop with a detailed plan of the next steps in your key word sign journey, as well as a host of helpful resources to support your learning.
You will complete the theory component of your training as a self-paced eLearning module. You can learn flexibly in your own time and complete your training around other commitments. The eLearning will take you between 1 – 2 hrs. You will then complete the practical component of your training virtually online, where you, your trainer and the other participants will join from their computers.
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Basic Training – full day – face to face – 28th April 2025
Presented by: Amy Southwood
Date: Monday 28th April 2025
Time: 9:00 – 4:30 ACST
Location: Durack Community Creative Space – 33 Packard Avenue, Durack NT 0830You’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 – Split Session Virtual – Wednesday 7th & 14th May 2025
Presented by: Key Word Sign South Australia
Date: Wednesday 7th & 14th May 2025
Time: 3.45pm – 7.30pm ACST
Location: Online via zoomYou’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
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