See-the-Sound Visual Phonics Virtual Training (TAC-DHH)

This is a completed event.

Description:

The Technical Assistance Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program (TAC-DHH) at VCU's Partnership for People with Disabilities will be hosting a virtual See-the-Sound Visual Phonics event. This course is for professionals who are new to STS-Visual Phonics. The training explores the multi-sensory STS-Visual Phonics system of 50+ handshapes/hand cues that are suggestive of the approximately 44 English phonemes and more, plus printed/written symbols that represent these handshapes/hand cues.

COST: $40.00 for Virginia professionals and parents;  $50.00 for out-of-state professionals

About Visual Phonics: See-the-Sound Visual Phonics© is a system of 50+ hand gestures that are suggestive of the English sounds they represent, and written symbols that suggest these hand gestures.

Visual Phonics is a tool that facilitates the teaching of:

  • Reading through the development of decoding skills
  • Writing through the development of spelling and word study skills
  • Speech through the development of articulation skills and speechreading skills

Participants will be taught to recognize, produce and blend all of the STS-Visual Phonics handshapes and written symbols for all of the English phonemes and more! Emphasis will be placed on the application of STS-Visual Phonics to best practice in literacy instruction for students who are deaf and hard of hearing and others at risk for reading failure. Suggestions will be given for modifications and applications of traditional elementary phonics curricula.

Date(s):


3/15/2023 4:00 PM ET - 3/15/2023 7:15 PM ET,
3/22/2023 4:00 PM ET - 3/15/2023 7:15 PM ET,
3/29/2023 4:00 PM ET - 3/29/2023 7:15 PM ET

Tag(s):

Early Childhood Hearing Impairment