Our therapy team

How our therapists help your child

Our therapists are all based in the school and work side by side with the teaching and support staff.

Both in school and in our residential homes, your child always has the support of our therapy team, who will monitor their progress carefully. The job of our therapy team is to create an individual support plan for each child. This means that your child can rely on consistency and understanding, which we know results in greater trust, confidence and ability to learn key language and communication skills.

Our Speech and Language Therapists complete a holistic assessment with each of our students and devise individualised advice and programmes to develop our student’s language and communication skills. The advice and programmes are embedded in the students learning throughout the school day, and within our residential services. Direct and targeted work on speech, language and social communication is also completed, where appropriate, by our Speech and Language Therapists and Speech and Language Therapy Assistants.  

• Our Educational Psychologist, supported by a Behaviour Coordinator works with children and the class teams to build a programme for your child to develop their behavioural and social skills. Everyone who works with your child will follow this programme.
• Our Speech and Language Therapists also work on developing the communication skills of our students who use both paper-based and technology-based Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) to communicate, such as PECS, iPad apps, and symbolised Communication Books. This is supported by our Speech and Language Therapy Assistants.
• Our Speech and Language Therapists provide universal support to create a whole school communication friendly environment and provide individualised visual supports, accessible information, and Social Stories to students. A full day of training is given to all new staff on the communication needs of our students, and our Speech and Language Therapists provide targeted and specialist training for specific interventions where required, to both staff and parents.  
• Our Advanced Occupational Therapist sets up sensory circuits which every child can access. The Occupational Therapist ensures that each child has a sensory profile. This is designed to help teachers and parents provide the best support to children in learning to regulate their emotions.

All our children are supported to learn key life skills, such as toileting and eating. And your child will be helped to learn a variety of daily techniques for keeping calm and promoting a feeling of being safe and in control. Our focus is always on helping your child to achieve emotional security and a measure of self reliance.