Unfortunately our purchase
of a school-based Speech-Language Pathologist has come to an end due to a
vacancy not being filled in the Emerald region.
My sincere thanks to Catherine Ellen who did work in our school one day
a fortnight since the start of the year.
Catherine was able to complete a backlog of assessments and provide
intervention material to support our students.
Catherine will continue to visit our school one day a term to monitor
the progress of some of our students who receive speech intervention.
During the week some
other students also had assessments completed by the Speech and Language
Disorder Awareness team. This free
service is also invaluable to us as it provides reports on the children who
have been assessed and also provides intervention programs for us which can be
implemented by teachers and teacher aides.
It is greatly appreciated.
If you feel that
your child is struggling at school and would benefit from further support,
please speak to your child’s teacher or myself.
Our sincere aim is to provide a classroom where every child can succeed
and feel a sense of achievement.
As a staff, we have
recently been adding data to the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data for
students with a disability. Please see
further information regarding this data collection elsewhere in this
newsletter.
Maria