Partnerships in Communication

Partnerships in Communication is a 4-session course for ECEs, AIDP, IDP, ASCC, SCC and parents. The course is structured around daily routines and encourages participants to see how these can be used as language learning opportunities for young children.

Each session may be offered as a stand-alone unit. The instructor may choose to present 1, 2, 3 or all 4 of the sessions based on the learning needs of the participants. It is estimated that each session will take 2.5 to 3 hours to present.

Session One: 2.5 – 3 hours

Focus is Speech Sounds – (Articulation)

  • Text and videos address how to help preschool children who are difficult to understand
  • Strategies are structured around daily routines (e.g., arrival, free play, snack, circle, transitions).
  • How can we help these children speak more clearly so their peers (and others) can understand them?

Session Two: 2.5 – 3 hours

Focus is the Early Language Learner

  • Text and videos address how to help children who are just beginning to use language.
  • Strategies are structured around daily routines (e.g., arrival, free play, snack, circle, transitions).
  • How can we identify their attempts to communicate?
  • How can we build on these attempts?

Session Three: 2.5 – 3 hours

Focus is the Later Language Learner

  • Text and videos address how to help children who are learning more complex language skills (e.g., vocabulary concepts, story-telling, sentence structures, early literacy)
  • Strategies are structured around daily routines (e.g., arrival, free play, snack, circle, transitions)
  • How can we help these children build their language skills?
  • How can we help them understand new words and follow directions?

Session Four: 2.5 – 3 hours

Focus is Social Communication

  • Text and videos address how to help children who have difficulty communicating within a social context.
  • Strategies are structured around daily routines (e.g., arrival, free play, snack, circle, transitions)
  • How can we help these children play with their peers?
  • How can we help them understand what to do?

The Partnerships Project Training Modules are a community based training delivery model for practitioners and parents in communities who serve children birth to six with special needs and their families.