Workshops & Professional Development for Schools & Staff

We provide a range of supportive virtual workshops and in-clinic programs for children, parents, teachers, and educational assistants.

Teachers, assistants, and other support staff can join us for ongoing learning sessions. See what we have coming up. Or you can schedule a separate workshops for your school or agency. Contact us to find out more!

Upcoming Workshops & Professional Development

Behavior Support Workshop

What supports positive behavior outcomes? This workshop will help educators better understand how to achieve increased compliance and attention to learning. Educators may share examples of behavior concerns and the context in which they occur.

Ergonomics and Positioning

Does your student often slouch, wiggle, or complain that they are tired while completing school work? Is your student's desk or table the right size for their body? Unsure? Join our occupational therapist for education on proper ergonomics.

Supporting Behaviour, Participation, and Transitions

Does your child need multiple reminders to complete seemingly-simple tasks? Do they have challenges moving from one task to another, or feeling confident during new situations? Learn how to support your child through visuals, timers, schedules, social stories, and more!

Behavior Support Level 2

What supports positive behavior outcomes? This workshop will help educators better understand how to achieve increased compliance and attention to learning. Educators may share examples of behavior concerns and the context in which they occur.

Mental Health Matters: How to Identify and Support Mental Health

Mental health is currently a very important topic that is discussed for our students and youth. However, it can be difficult to know how to understand and wade through all the vast information that is out there. This is a workshop that will cover mental health well-being for your students and their families. It will include topics regarding understanding mental health, identifying and knowing warning signs, coping strategies, and resources that can be accessible at school or within your community.

Emotional Regulation

Teaching emotion concepts is important, but regulation begins before we even develop words! This workshop explores both top-down (language strategies), and bottom-up strategies to CONNECT to my body, my experience, and my people in order to manage my big feelings.

Reading Interventions

Meet our Learning Consultant, Kathy Tyler, who will guide educators on how to support struggling readers. Educators may bring examples of how their students struggle with reading.

Sensory Processing

We ALL have a sensory profile. As adults, most of us have developed an “owner’s manual” to cope with sensory likes and dislikes. Our students may not yet understand their sensations or emotions, be able to communicate their likes and dislikes, and have little control over their environments (adults set the schedule, menu, clothes, temperature). Helping our children be calm, attentive, and flexible requires bottom-up body strategies (e.g. sleep, nutrition, sensory input), as well as top-down brain strategies (communication, organization)... and good detective work! Come learn how to better understand your student, and strategies to set-up for sensory-success!

Visual Motor Skills and Printing

This in service will explain the underlying skills required for children to learn printing and how pre printing skills develop. The presenter will review a range of printing programs for younger students and elementary aged students.

Executive Functioning

What is executive functioning and how can we support our students? Executive Functioning Skills facilitate the behaviors required to plan and achieve goals. This workshop will discuss the fundamental skills related to Executive Function including proficient adaptable thinking, planning, self monitoring, working memory, time management and organization.

REQUEST A WORKSHOP: Trauma Informed Classrooms

Often in a classroom, there are many students impacted by factors beyond what is happening within the school environment. These factors can include family dynamics, intergenerational trauma, unstable housing, traumatic events that occur to them in the community, grief and loss, and many more. It can be helpful to understand how to support all students from a trauma-informed perspective so that students are not being re-traumatized or triggered at school. This workshop will cover understanding what trauma-informed means and strategies to be used in the classroom. There will also be some time for participants to submit specific examples or scenarios of students and how to support them in those situations.

Khan Team Spotlight

Annika Hanson

Registered Speech-Language Pathologist Social Skills group Program Coordinator, Chatter leader

My first-hand experience in the Chatter Program™ strengthened not only my communication skills but also my ability to engage and develop positive social relationships with those who socialize and communicate differently.”

Annika HansonRegistered Speech-Language Pathologist Social Skills group Program Coordinator, Chatter leader

Through first-hand experience as a teenage peer in the Chatter Program™, Annika developed an appreciation for the role that a community can play in social success. Today, as a Speech-Language Pathologist and Chatter Program™ Coordinator, Annika works closely with group leaders to develop functional and meaningful goals designed for each group of children in the program.

Annika is passionate about providing volunteer peers with training on communication strategies, neurodiversity, and social differences, so that community members become thoughtful and accepting communication partners. Every Wednesday and Thursday in the Chatter Program™, she looks forward to seeing participants and volunteers having fun together, developing their skills, and forming supportive relationships.