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Welcome To The Diversity Centre

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Our Aim:

SUPPORT, EMPOWER AND EDUCATE.

Parents, teachers and therapists working in partnership with children. 

Focusing on difference over disorder, The Diversity Centre aims to provide a platform to address the misdiagnosis or lack of diagnosis affecting the culturally and linguistically diverse society of South Africa. The guiding principle of the Diversity Centre is the MAD principle (Making a Difference) in the lives of the culturally and linguistically diverse.

Parents

  • - Difference vs disorder
  • - How do I support my child’s bi/multilingual development?
  • - What is speech–language therapy and what is their role in my emergent bilingual?

Teachers

  • - What is an emergent bilingual?

  • - How do I support them in my class and still achieve my curriculum demands?

  • - How does second language development differ from the first?
  • - What do I see and hear and how do I deal with it?

How

  • - Webinars
  • - Articles 
  • - Share evaluation and intervention strategies/resources, podcasts, framework to
    interact and address questions and concerns related to CLD

Therapists

  • - Features of disorder vs difference
  • - What resources does one use to make the distinction? 
  • - How does one make the distinction between disorder and difference semantically syntactically, phonologically, morphologically and pragmatically?
  • - How does one accurately identify phonological processes and articulation errors in bilingual children?

SERVICES

  • - Speech and language screening
  • - Short term language stimulation (three months /school term), not therapy
  • - Intervention principle: dynamic assessment i.e. test –teach-test method
  • - Content: Communication, speech and language and literacy needs. Intervention will be guided by the school curriculum and the need for effective functionality in the classroom
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