Gesture Development in Early Intervention
In this course, you will learn about gesture development in early development. You will understand how gestures support early communication and how to use gestures in assessment and treatment.
Speaker
Brooke Andrews specializes in working in Early Intervention and with preschool populations. She has a passion for teaching about early communication "beyond the words." Brooke has a 5-year-old daughter and lives in Bucks County, PA.
Disclosure: Brooke receives compensation from AbleNet for presenting this webinar. She also receives financial compensation from online courses she has developed.
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Who this course is for
Every minute is written for working clinicians, educators, and families. You walk away with real-world tools to try with your next learner, not abstract theory.
Speech-Language Pathologists
Early Intervention Specialists
Parents & Caregivers
Pediatricians
After this course
What you’ll walk away with.
You leave with concrete skills and frameworks you can apply in your next session, classroom, or family visit, not just ideas to think about later.
Earn your CEUs
Attend the full course and pass the post-session assessment at 80% or higher. Your 0.1 ASHA CEUs are reported to ASHA when you opt in on the assessment.
- 01
You’ll be able to
Describe the typical stages of gesture development in young children.
- 02
You’ll be able to
Identify how to use gestures as part of a communication assessment.
- 03
You’ll be able to
List strategies for using gestures to support language development.
The full 1 hour
Your learning path.
- 1
Introduction
5 minutes - 2
16 Gestures Overview
15 minutes - 3
Gestures in assessment
15 minutes - 4
Gestures in treatment
15 minutes - 5
Gestures in special populations
5 minutes - 6
Summary
5 minutes
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