Trainning

Internal Knowledge Sharing Session for Quarter 1/2025, titled “Using Objects in Therapy According to the Denver Model,” was held yesterday at Sao Mai Center. This session was part of an ongoing plan to enhance the expertise of speech and language therapy teachers, and also served as a platform for sharing professional knowledge and experience across teams, with the goal of growing together. The session was led by Ms. Dang Van – leader of the individual ESDM (Early Start Denver Model) team, alongside her colleague Ms. Huong Loan, a teacher from the same team.

On February 27, Sao Mai Center was delighted to welcome Professor Erin Lafferty Schneckenberger – an expert in Pediatric Occupational Therapy and Director of Forward Steps Hanoi, along with her colleagues, to conduct a training session on “Sensory Integration Therapy” for the teachers and staff at Sao Mai.

  From October 21 to 26, 2024, Sao Mai Center had the honor of welcoming Ms. Carolyne Jones, a Master of Psychology from Latrobe University, Australia. She is an experienced professional in early intervention and education for children with autism. Ms. Jones is a certified ESDM (Early Start Denver Model) therapist and trainer. She is currently working at the Autism Specific Early Learning and Care Center (ASELCC) at La Trobe University, Australia. With professional experience since 2012 and managerial responsibilities at the center since 2019, Ms. Jones brought advanced knowledge and methods to share with the educators and parents at Sao ...

On October 15, 2024, the specialists from Morning Star Center conducted a post-training support session at the Thang Long Early Intervention Center in Thai Binh. The session aimed to further enhance the skills and knowledge of the teachers and specialists at the center. This support session was a crucial step in reinforcing the skills learned and practiced at Morning Star Center, while also addressing challenges faced in the intervention process for children with special needs at Thang Long Early Intervention Center. Continuous and intensive post-training support not only helps the team at Thang Long Early Intervention Center in better applying intervention ...

Morning Star Center sucessfully trained and transfered early intervention model to Hanh Phuc Education and Training Consulting Company in Ho Chi Minh City in 2024 After completing the training program for Thang Long Clinic, Morning Star Center continues its mission of transferring early intervention model to units nationwide. For nearly a month up to now, Mrs.Tran Thi Nhan from Hanh Phuc has officially participated in the intensive training program at Sao Mai.   This training activity is part of Morning Star Center's long-term strategy to share valuable knowledge and experience in early intervention in order to help children with special needs have the ...

On February 23rd-24th, 2024, Morning Star Center was honored to welcome Japanese music therapist and university lecturer Oka Hiromi to visit and work with the children and teaching staff. Mrs. Oka belongs to a team of Japanese experts who have long been a familiar guest at Morning Star and visit the center annually. This is the second time she has come to share her experiences with the center's teachers and spend time with the students here.  

The purpose of this training program is to update teachers and speech therapists about new methods that are more effective and suitable for children today. During the training process, the experts came to each class to observe each speech and sensory motor therapist so that they could share feedback and provide practical training to each student on new methods of intervention for children, guiding the integration of appropriate OT activities into the educational program in some classes. In addition, they also shared their experience, which helped teachers feel confident when applying these new therapeutic activities in the classroom through guidance ...

In 2015, in the international cooperation program, thanks to the project funding from the Dora Foundation - Switzerland, the first group of 6 Morning Star teachers were directly trained as ESDM therapists from experienced experts from Best Star Clinic in accordance with the training process of MIND Academy, UC Davis. 4 in 6 teachers received international certification after training. From February 2016 until now, Morning Star Center has organized the ESDM program intervention, with the active participation of parents. From practical experience, this is an early intervention model that is highly effective for the development of ASD children. Additionally, these ...

On June 10, 2023, there was an exciting and interesting expertise exchange session between a group of 8 French final-year students majoring in speech therapy at Clerment - Ferrand University and all teachers at Morning Star in the center's assembly hall. During the session, they brought to the Center's teachers a lot of new knowledge and new intervention methods in the process of speech therapy for children. Besides, they also provided many examples and lively practice activities to build children's foundational communication skills before moving on to learning spoken language

The regular professional sharing and support program between Morning Star Center and Morning Star Hai Phong Center takes place every year. In the past two years, due to the impact of the COVID pandemic, professional activities have only been supported online. This year, on the occasion of the return to stability and changes in the implementation of some new activities of the Hai Phong center, there was a direct professional support session on May 27, 2022.