NEWS

26/27 April 2024, Dublin. Karin Schamroth will present at the 2024 FEAPDA Conference (European Federation of Associations of Teachers of Deaf Children & Young People) How smiLE Therapy supported a deaf and visually impaired teenager on their journey to independence and self-advocacy across seven years.

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Specialist Deaf Curriculum Framework (SDCF). The SDCF, launched in February 2024, has been written to support deaf babies, children, young people, and their families to develop knowledge and make informed and independent decisions about their deafness, from identification through to adulthood. It supports deaf children and young people’s independence. Suggested resources give links to smiLE Therapy for these sections: 2c Communication with Others and 

4b Emotional and Mental Health

https://www.batod.org.uk/resources-category/specialist-deaf-curriculum-framework/

14.03.24 Scottish Sensory Centre, The University of Edinburgh, will host a free x1 hour online smiLE Therapy ‘Taster’ session. https://www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/courses/deaf/dmar24a.html

Congratulations: Masters Thesis Distinction in smiLE Therapy, Interkantonale Hochschule für Heilpädagogik, Zürich, Switzerland. September 2023. Congratulations to Isabelle Spaeti Suard, Teacher of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) Students, for her Masters Thesis: smiLE Therapy: Fünktionales Kommunikationstraining in deutscher Sprache. Durchfuhrung mit einer Gruppe von Jugendlichen mit Hor- und Kommunikationsbeeintrachtigung. Department of Special Needs Education for the DHH. University of Applied Sciences of Special Needs Education (HfH)

RCSLT (Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists) Research Champion

Training Parents: What impact does it have on children’s ability to maintain and generalise skills learnt in smiLE Therapy? (Martina Curtin and Dr. Ros Herman)

https://www.rcslt.org/wp-content/uploads/media/Project/RCSLT/martina-curtin.pdf

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29.06.23 Sally Morgan & Karin Schamroth presented at the 2023 Linking Research to Practice Event at the Centre For Language and Communication Science Research, School for Health and Psychological Sciences, City, University of London. How a service evaluation by students can help answer a question - Could I use smiLE therapy with teenagers with Down Syndrome?

22.06.23 Sally Morgan presents a poster at the British Academy of Childhood Disability (BACD) Annual Scientific Meeting, Sheffield. Conference theme is Learning Disabilities: Is SmiLE therapy feasible, acceptable and can support communication development for teenagers with Down Syndrome.

24.09.22 BATOD National Conference (British Association of Teachers of Deaf Children & Young People). Student Hadiqa, together with Karin Schamroth, Sarah Caffrey (QVI Teacher) and Teressa Willis (QTOD) presented on "Hadiqa’s teenage journey to independence, self-advocacy and well being with smiLE Therapy".