Training

Training for parents and carers

• Dysfluency /stammering
• L1 - Language skills - level 1
• L2 - Language skills - level 2
• L3 - Language skills - level 3
• SC1 – Social Communication skills – level 1
• SC2 – Social Communication skills – level 2
• SC3 – Social Communication skills – level 3
• Speech sounds and how you can help

Setting training

Nurseries and settings are welcome to attend the parent training workshops run by the Early Years service and can contact the CITS Admin line to book onto a session.

The Early Years Speech and Language Therapy team are also offering training as part of the Children’s Integrated Therapy Service (CITS) online training where there are sessions offered by all of the therapy services. Dates for this training are published in the SEND newsletter and flyers are sent out to school SENCO’s.

Nurseries and setting are also able to access training offered by the Local Authorities SEND Advisory Service to support children and young people with speech, language and communication needs and can find links to their training directory in the SEND newsletter.

Training for Education staff

• Creating a communication rich environment training video
• Total Communication (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) - training video 
• Total Communication (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) - slides
• Paediatric Dysphagia Training for Special Schools
  • If you have concerns about a child’s feeding skills and would like to make a dysphagia referral, please complete the attached pro forma along with the CITS referral form to the Speech and Language Therapy Service.
  • Dysphagia Special School Pro forma 

School staff

Schools are able to request that their link speech and language therapist offers bespoke training for their school. SENCO’s can discuss training requests with their speech and language therapist at the beginning of each term.

The mainstream schools speech and language therapy team are also offering training as part of the Children’s Integrated Therapy Service (CITS) online training where there are sessions offered by all of the therapy services. Dates for this training are published in the SEND newsletter and flyers are sent out to school SENCO's.

School staff are also able to access training offered by the Local Authorities SEND Advisory Service to support children and young people with speech, language and communication needs and can find links to their training directory in the SEND newsletter.

Resources

• Auditory processing difficulties
• Auditory memory and recall 
• Classroom language games 
• Developmental Language Disorders: Webinars for teachers
• Dysphagia training
• Speech Sounds Workshop
• Stammering workshop for school staff 
• Selective Mutism 
• Supporting students with language difficulties in secondary/post 14 provisions 
• Voice care

Parents/carers

The mainstream schools speech and language therapy team is offering parent/carer only training.

Parent/carers wanting to attend training need to contact the CITS Advice Line on 01895 488 200 and ask to be booked on to a session.

Your child does not need a referral to access the training, but we may need to prioritise training for parents/carers of children known to speech and language therapy service.

If you are not sure which training is right for you, then please speak to your child’s therapist or ask to speak to the duty speech and language therapist and they can help you.

Please note, this training is being delivered online.

Parent workshops

• Co-Regulation (presentation with audio)
• Development Language Disorder (DLD) (presentation)
• Early communication skills for children who say little (video)
• Language (video)
• LEGO-based Therapy (presentation with audio)
• Neurodiversity: supporting your child's social communication 
• Stammering
• Stammering (video)
• Speech sounds (video)
• Transition to Mainstream Schools Speech and Language Therapy Service (presentation with audio)