Right Kids, Right Time, Right Services: Developmental Monitoring Tools for Early Childhood Professionals

Occupational Therapy, Southern Cross UniversitySocial Futures, The Belonging Project

Beth Mozolic-Staunton, SCU and Heather Tannock, Social Futures

Right Kids, Right Time, Right Services- Developmental Monitoring Tools for Early Childhood Professionals
As an early care and education provider, you play a critical role in the health and wellbeing of children. You are also very well positioned to help identify children who might need extra help in their development. This FREE, professional development workshop, Right Kids, Right Time, Right Services- Developmental Monitoring Tools for Early Childhood Educators, helps you fulfill this role by providing tools and best practices for monitoring the development of children in your care and talking about it with their parents.
 In this 3-hour, workshop, you will learn:
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<LI>Why monitoring children’s development is important</LI>
<LI>Why you have a unique and important role in developmental monitoring</LI>
<LI>How to easily monitor each child’s developmental milestones with <A TITLE="Social Attention and Communication Surveillance (SACS-R)" HREF="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/otarc/research/research-themes/identification-and-diagnosis" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Social Attention and Communication Surveillance (SACS-R)</A> </LI>
<LI>How to talk with parents about their child’s development</LI>
</UL>
Gain confidence and resources to monitor young children's development and promote access to early intervention for children who need it.
About the Presenter
Dr Josephine Barbaro is Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the <A TITLE="Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre" HREF="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/otarc" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC)</A> at La Trobe University. She completed her PhD on the prospective identification of ASDs in infancy and toddlerhood at OTARC in 2010. Josephine has five papers published on the early detection of ASDs and the cognitive profiles of very young children on the autism spectrum. Her research interests are in the early identification and diagnosis of infants and toddlers, as well as the education of primary health care professionals about these early signs and how to detect ASDs in very young children. Josephine was a recipient of a Sir Robert Menzies Scholarship in the Allied Health Sciences in 2006, and awarded the best clinical dissertation for 2011 (worldwide) by the International Society for Autism Research. The SACS-R is currently being implemented in Melbourne, Brisbane, China, Poland, Japan, Korea and India. This is the first opportunity for Early Childhood Educators in Australia to undertake this new resource for early identification of children with developmental challenges including ASD.
This workshop has been funded by <A HREF="http://www.autismcrc.com.au/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cooperative Research Centre for</A> <A HREF="http://www.autismcrc.com.au/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Living with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Autism CRC)</A>
 
FAQs
 
What are my parking options at Southern Cross University-Gold Coast Campus?
Free Parking is available at either of the two lots near the campus. Just let the security attendant know you are attending the "Right Kids, Right Time, Right Services Training"
 
Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?
Beth Mozolic-Staunton
e-mail: beth.staunton@scu.edu.au
Phone: 07 5589-3149
 
Is my registration/ticket transferrable?
Yes, if you are unable to attend you may pass your registration along to a co-worker.
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
No
The name on the registration/ticket doesn't match the attendee. Is that okay?
No problem!

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