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The Speech and Language Therapy Team works collaboratively with teaching staff to integrate therapeutic outcomes into the classroom. This enables students to access communication support throughout the school day. This supports our ethos that therapy is most effective when fully embedded throughout the day and that communication is fundamental.
The onsite Speech and Language Therapy team provides support as outlined in each learner’s Education Health and Care Plan. This typically involves:
Direct Interventions Offered
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The Speech and Language Team offers various interventions, on a group/1:1 basis, based on individual learner needs: |
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Attention Autism - Attention Autism is a learning approach that aims to develop natural and spontaneous communication skills for autistic children through the use of visually based and highly motivating activities. |
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Colourful Semantics – Colourful Semantics is aimed at helping children to develop their grammar but it is rooted in the meaning of words (semantics). |
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The Story Massage Programme – The Story Massage Programme combines the benefits of positive touch with the fun and creativity of words – whether as story, rhyme or song. Ten simple massage strokes form the basis of this programme. |
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Intensive Interaction – Intensive Interaction teaches and develops the ‘Fundamentals of Communication’, attainments such as: use and understanding of eye contact, facial expressions, vocalisations leading to speech, taking turns in exchanges of communication and the structure of conversation. |
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Social Stories – Social Stories are a social learning tool that supports the safe and meaningful exchange of information between parents, professionals and people with autism of all ages. A Social Story can be used to teach the individual with autism about a specific social situation that they may not have encountered before. |
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smiLE Therapy - ‘strategies and measurable interaction in Live English’ therapy builds communicative skills resilience for everyday encounters in the community, so promoting independence and inclusion. |
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Blanks Levels of Questioning – Blank’s Levels are a framework developed to help children develop key oral comprehension skills. The framework is built around four stages of questioning, which become progressively more complex, moving from relatively simple, concrete questions to more complicated, abstract queries. |
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Sensory Stories – From tactile elements to auditory cues, these stories offer an inclusive storytelling experience that develops the imagination and bring the tales to life for our young people. |
Our Team
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Jayla (Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist) |
Clara (Specialist Speech & Language Therapist) |
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Elisavet (Specialist Speech & Language Therapist) |
Emily (Specialist Speech & Language Therapist) |
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Bushra (Speech & Language Therapy Assistant) |
Evone (Speech & Language Therapy Assistant) |
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Kotryna (Speech & Language Therapy Assistant) |
Parents are invited to telephone the school office if they wish to make an appointment to discuss their child’s therapy
