About this event: 

It is intended that the workshop will be fully participatory, with group discussions, practice elements, small group work, and action plans to put new knowledge and skills into practice. Support will be provided via an online chat thread in between workshops so that participants can give feedback about how they have implemented their action plan, engage in peer support, and receive feedback / guidance from the presenter, Sam Brydon. Numbers will be capped at 25 per workshop, and workshops will not be recorded. You will need to have access to a quiet space and good internet to participate.

LAMP Words for Life is a motor planning-based communication app that allows children and adults who are non-speaking to communicate efficiently and with minimal effort. The LAMP therapeutic approach is a way of supporting autistic children to learn and use AAC and is particularly suited for use with this app. LAMP WFL will be demonstrated and demystified throughout the workshops, with plenty of opportunities for participants to practice and hone their skills at setting up, modelling, and using in a range of activities.

About the presenter:

Sam Brydon is a speech language therapist with 30 years of experience in the field of disability, including as a social worker. Sam originally trained and worked in England, before emigrating to Aotearoa in 2007. She has since worked for the Ministry of Education, Patricia Avenue Specialist School, and currently for The TalkLink Trust. She completed doctoral research at Massey University in the field of AAC in 2023. Sam first discovered LAMP when she was reading and researching for her PhD. She attended the first training in Aotearoa in 2019 and has since implemented and supported LAMP with many children and young people with diverse communication needs and has been excited to observe how successful this approach can be with children who have previously struggled to use AAC.

Minimum numbers:

Events require a minimum number of participants to proceed. This registration will just hold a spot for you if and when the course will open. By then you will receive an email from us that will confirm the starting date and that gives you first priority to secure your spot before a certain date. We'll confirm latest two weeks before the date of the event on the event page of our website.

Costs indication: 

• TBC, price range will sit around 100 per Whānau/family member for 4 sessions 
• No payment required as you are not registering yet.  You are only expressing your interest for this event.

Expressions of Interest for this course close 30 September 2025

Please check out our Whanau Professional Development and Learning Grant and ATANZ Professional Development Grant 

Who can attend:

This workshop is exclusively for whanau members with autistic children with diverse communication needs. 

Questions: 

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