Therapy Provision (SLT and OT)

Occupational Therapy 

The Occupational Therapy team work with students to develop their needs and to promote their strengths, supporting them to access the curriculum within the classroom as well as accessing meaningful activities that promote their physical health. 

The team works holistically and will work with the students to improve their gross motor skills, fine motor skills, motor planning, functional skills (cutlery, tying shoe laces, time), visual perceptual skills, sensory and self-regulation, as well as promoting their life skills to enable them to have improved independence within the school and the community. 

Therapy takes place in 1:1, small group and class based sessions (e.g., regulation, life skills and fine motor skills). The OTs also support teaching staff to ensure therapeutic strategies (e.g., brain breaks and movements) are incorporated within the classes and provide each student with the indirect support they require.

For those students with more significant occupational therapy needs, we offer a limited number of places in the OT stream. Further information can be found under the Therapy Streams tab.

Speech and Language Therapy 

The speech and Language therapy team target specific skills associated with speech, language (e.g., word knowledge, sentence structures, narrative and inference) and communication (including social communication skills and functional use of language/life skills groups).The SLTs also support teaching staff to ensure therapeutic strategies are incorporated within the classes.

For those students with more significant speech and language therapy needs, we offer a limited number of Language Stream placements. Further information can be found under the Language Stream tab.

Do Speech and Language Therapists have a role in literacy?

Podcast - Do Speech and Language Therapists have a role in Literacy? By RCSLT Sound Waves

As dually qualified speech and language therapists working with school-aged children, the importance of making the links between spoken and written language through explicit instruction, is something we're very passionate about. A few years ago, we surveyed over 500 UK SaLTs to find out their views on their role and scope practice within literacy (written language). The ultimate aim was to find out whether the UK SaLTs working with children and/or adults, feel the professions would benefit from having a position paper regarding the role and scope of practice within literacy. The podcast discusses the question of whether SaLTs have a role in literacy when working with children and/or adults. It also offers insights from an international perspective.