Developmental Difficulties and Special Needs in perspective of Constitutional Types & School Readiness with Assessment Exercises

Hong Kong Waldorf Early Childhood Education Teachers Training

3rd Semester – 3rd weekend workshop with Barbara Baldwin

October 15 & 16

"Special Needs" often refers to special needs within an educational context which includes but not limited to autism, ADHD, cerebral palsy, and epilepsy. Children with special needs may have mild learning disabilities or profound mental retardation; food allergies or terminal illness; developmental delays that catch up quickly or remain entrenched; occasional panic attacks or serious psychiatric problems.

School readiness, a term used frequently in the in pre-school and kindergarten setting, means that a child is ready to enter a social and educationally based environment. In other words, the child is ready to start the process of learning how to do things independently. This is an important subject for parents and teachers to know if their children are ripe for formal schooling. If otherwise, learning difficulties will surface which induce psychological problem.

Trainer: Barbara Baldwin

A qualified speech pathologist, Barbara studied speech and special education in Europe and came to Australia in 1981. Barbara has worked and lectured extensively across the globe including in Germany, Austria, Denmark, Czech Republic, Israel, UK, USA, Indonesia, Japan and Australia.

Barbara has two main areas of expertise: i) education – with particular focus on the diverse spread of learning styles, needs, skills and difficulties presented in the contemporary classroom environment; ii) speech, voice and communication, with a focus on the Voice of Women and the use of voice in the education of children (both teachers and parents). She is a specialist on many aspects of voice: voice projection, voice protection and voice correction. Barbara also coaches leaders at all levels of language competence to the highest level of excellence in accent reduction, idiomatic use of English, confidence in public speaking, business language and personal presentation.

Times	Activities
0900-0930	Sharing movement exercises*
0930-1045	Day 1: School readiness Day 2: Constitutional Typologies in perspective of Special needs
1045-1115	Tea Break
1115-1230	Discussion relating to morning lecture
1230-1400	Lunch
1400-1515	Exercises relating to School readiness
1515-1545	Tea break
1545-1700	Specific questions relating to children in your kindergartens
1700-1730	Sharing and Review

Venue : Garden House Pre-School 7 Silverstrand Beach Road. Clearwater Bay. Kowloon

Cost: $1,500- for 2-day workshop
50% off for those from Mainland China and Waldorf associates

30% off for kindergarten teachers and those who work with children in education institutes

20% off for those who enroll for one semester (= 7 weekend workshops)

HeartSource & Garden House parents

All materials included.

Please note that DISCOUNT only applies to those who pay up before the workshop, FULL FEE for those who pay on-site

Registration please email to HeartSourcehk @gmail.com