Communication sits at the heart of learning, belonging, and wellbeing. Within Te Whāriki, Communication | Mana Reo recognises that children develop language through responsive relationships, play, and meaningful interaction. Similarly, the New Zealand Curriculum places oral language at the centre of learning through the Key Competencies - particularly using language, symbols, and texts, relating to others, and participating and contributing.
In early learning settings and classrooms across Aotearoa, it's evident how communication shapes access to learning. Children with strong ideas who struggle to express them. Learners who understand instructions but find it challenging to ask for help, join and maintain verbally-based social interactions, or share their thinking. These moments matter and they happen during everyday learning activities.
This space is designed to support early childhood and primary teachers, SENCOs, and specialist teachers to strengthen speech, language and communication within everyday practice, in ways that align with curriculum expectations and are practical and achievable in busy settings.
You’ll find practical webinars that demonstrate how to support speech development through play, classroom routines, shared reading, and curriculum activities - directly supporting Mana Reo and the development of key competencies across learning areas. You also have access to professional memberships offering resources, workshops, and ongoing professional learning focused on communication-related topics.
For SENCOs, specialist teachers and teachers with children with high and complex needs as members of their classrooms, supervision and professional support are available to help with:
Reflecting and planning for complex communication needs
Supporting classroom teachers with practical strategies
Strengthening inclusive practice and Tier 1–3 supports
Building knowledge, skills and confidence in decision-making and next steps
Professional supervision provides a safe, supportive space to think, problem-solve, and grow - whether you’re leading learning support, mentoring staff, or working directly with children who need additional communication support.
Whether you’re guided by Te Whāriki or the New Zealand Curriculum, this is a place to build knowledge, strengthen practice, and ensure every child has the opportunity to speak, be heard, understood, and included.
As Teachers, you play a critical role in shaping children's communication development. But knowing how to support their speech in a fun, natural way can be challenging.
That’s where my webinars come in.
My workshops, specifically created for busy Teachers, will help you:
✅ Recognise speech and language delays - and know when to be concerned and seek further support
✅ Use play-based strategies to encourage speech development naturally
✅ Incorporate simple techniques into daily routines to boost communication
✅ Support children with speech delays, and meet the needs of all the children in your care
✅ Learn how to develop and extend children's speech development within everyday activities
✅ Build confidence in your ability to support children's developing literacy skills
You’ll walk away with practical strategies you can implement immediately, without adding extra work to your already busy day.
I provide professional supervision in a one-off capacity to help you gain clarity and a way forward for those tricky students and situations, and within a membership, where supervision is combined with regular workshops, to support you to up-skill your professional knowledge.
I hold microcredentials in Supervision Skills and Peer Supervision Skills from NZ Coaching and Mentoring.
Use these handouts as materials for learning, for fresh ideas, as references, and to save time by giving to parents.
You can use whatever you purchase or download for free personally, in your teaching practice and to give out to parents of children in your care, but if other Teachers request to use them, please direct them to my site to purchase and download their own.
I'm a small business owner, these resources are my intellectual property and represent a significant time cost to me in creating them.
Occasionally, I update handouts, and these updates are provided free of charge for anyone who has purchased them. This includes the resources I provide for free.
In the interests of both supporting me financially, to be able to keep creating more resources like these and using relevant, up to date resources, please purchase your own copies 🙏
Every month, I ask an expert in their field to come and talk to us live, for FREE 🙌
Workshops are on communication or communication-adjacent topics, or things that can support us in our work and profession. They are intended as overviews, to give you more knowledge about a particular area of practice, access to an expert to ask questions from and to help you know where to look, for more in-depth information.
Check here to register for this month's workshop, or sign up for my Speech Teacher Guest Experts Membership to access the replay of this months and previous workshops.
Joining this membership helps me to cover the costs of hosting the workshops, so I can keep running them.
Join a membership for expert support and information for a whole year, to help you elevate your knowledge, skills and practice.
Memberships give you closer proximity and access to me and the knowledge I have built up over nearly two decades of learning, practice and hands-on work with children.
My memberships include self-study pre-recorded content, workshops from guest experts, regular workshops created and run by me and professional supervision. Choose the membership that suits your current needs.
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