Understanding Autism

£ 15
  • This Autism Awareness training course will help you understand more about Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) and how these affect the children that you work with. Upon completion, you’ll know how to identify the signs of autism and understand how you can support an autistic child in your setting.
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Understanding Dyslexia Diploma

£ 67
  • The Understanding Dyslexia Diploma Course helps students to better comprehend dyslexia, as well as how it can affect a child’s self-esteem, how to identify it, and importantly it covers the many ways in which teaching can be adapted to help a dyslexic learner.
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Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Diploma

£ 75
  • The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Diploma Course is designed to arm its course takers with a comprehensive knowledge that will enable them to utilise a variety of teaching methods and practices to suit the different preferred learning styles of the children they teach.
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ADHD Awareness

£ 67
  • The ADHD Awareness Course has been created to evolve people's understanding of ADHD (also know as ADD, or attention deficit disorder, and Hyperkinetic Disorder, which is often used to described a more severe presentation of the condition).
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Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) Diploma

£ 75
  • This online course gives you applied behaviour analysis training, and also explains different types of behaviour and how to observe these using the ABCs of ABA - antecedent, behaviour, and consequence.
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Speech Therapy Course

£ 75
  • This course takes you through the role of a speech therapist, the anatomical structures and physiological functions of speech and hearing, phonetics, language development and speech disorders, the structure of language, and career paths in this field.
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Makaton Taster Course

£ 10
  • Learn a brief insight into the background of Makaton and use 30 Signs and Symbols.
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Makaton LEVEL 1 Course

£ 25
  • Signs and symbols from stages 1, 2 and half of the additional stage of the core vocabulary.
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Makaton LEVEL 2 Course

£ 25
  • Signs and symbols from stages 3, 4 and the remaining half of the additional stage of the core vocabulary.
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Makaton LEVEL 3 Course

£ 25
  • Signs and symbols from stages 5 and 6 of the core vocabulary.
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Makaton LEVEL 4 Course

£ 25
  • Signs and symbols from stages 7, 8 and the IT stage of the core vocabulary.
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Using Makaton with Singing

£ 15
  • Learn approx 125 Signs and Symbols from popular nursery rhymes Examples of resources and ways of use How to adapt to suit different abilities.
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PECS LEVEL 1 Course

£ 230
  • This intensive 13-hour interactive online workshop is designed to teach educational and caregiver teams the theory and protocol for the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS), an evidence-based practice based on Applied Behaviour Analysis, typical language development, and B.F. Skinner’s Verbal Behaviour.
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Induction for Teaching Assistant’s Course

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  • Embark on a transformative journey into the world of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) with SENDhelp's Induction for Teaching Assistant's Course.
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About the course

This Autism Awareness training course will help you understand more about Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) and how these affect the children that you work with. Upon completion, you’ll know how to identify the signs of autism and understand how you can support an autistic child in your setting.

The course covers why you need to know about autism, what autism is, key terms, causes of autism, key legislation, behaviours associated with autism and helping an individual with autism.

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About the course

The Understanding Dyslexia Diploma Course helps students to better comprehend dyslexia, as well as how it can affect a child’s self-esteem, how to identify it, and importantly it covers the many ways in which teaching can be adapted to help a dyslexic learner.

Unless you yourself or someone close to you has dyslexia or if you teach those with the learning difficulty, it is often misunderstood and can actually go undiagnosed for some time, as it is seen as an “invisible” difficulty.

This course discusses ‘Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD)’ and how those with dyslexia are often affected by more than just the one condition. Here other SpLDs are outlined and course takers will learn how they can recognise and support a child with these various conditions. As students begin to understand how a child with dyslexia may be feeling, the course also shows how to support children emotionally, with tools and techniques to increase their self-worth and regain positivity.

You will learn how to identify and diagnose dyslexia in both children and adults. This includes common behaviours that can be noted in undiagnosed children, including how they often hide symptoms, as well as various tests that can be undertaken.

The Understanding Dyslexia Diploma Course informs students about the importance of inclusion and what this means. Also in this module Special Educational Need or Disabilities in the law are discussed, both from parents and educational establishment’s point of view, and how the relationship between both can benefit the child.

The Understanding Dyslexia Diploma Course will take you up to 150 hours to complete working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace. This is a Level 3 course and will give you 150 CPD (Continued Professional Development) points. Upon completion of your course assessments, you receive 2 certificates. A certificate from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificate displaying the number of CPD points earned from the course.

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About the course

The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Diploma Course is designed to arm its course takers with a comprehensive knowledge that will enable them to utilise a variety of teaching methods and practices to suit the different preferred learning styles of the children they teach.

Every child is different and has their own unique pattern of how they learn about the world around them. Good classroom teaching should use a variety of teaching methods to reflect the different preferred learning styles of the children in the class, and to enable every child to be able to engage in learning.

When a child has special educational needs or a disability, learning can be much harder and it doesn’t always happen as easily as it does for other children. Different styles of teaching, resources, additional equipment, or adaptations to the classroom may have to be made to enable children with additional needs in order for them to reach their full potential.

The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Diploma Course is primarily suited to educators, parents, and those who care for children with special needs or disabilities. This SEN training course is also excellent for those who wish to begin a career within the education industry or who are interested in teaching theories and practices.

The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Diploma Course will take you up to 150 hours to complete working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace. This is a Level 3 course and will give you 150 CPD (Continued Professional Development) points.

Upon completion of your course assessments, you receive 2 certificates. A certificate from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificate displaying the number of CPD points earned from the course.

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About the course

The ADHD Awareness Course has been created to evolve people’s understanding of ADHD (also know as ADD, or attention deficit disorder, and Hyperkinetic Disorder, which is often used to described a more severe presentation of the condition).

ADHD, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has had a lot of bad press and is often misunderstood by those who don’t have a connection to someone with the condition.

To understand the condition, we must first understand what it is. Course takers will learn, about symptoms, related conditions, variations of the condition, and more.

Although the most commonly diagnosed, and one of the most highly-researched, mental health disorders in children, there is still a lot to understand about the cause of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The ADHD Awareness Course shares some of the most recent research and information, so that students can get a better grasp of what is, and isn’t.

You will learn the pros and cons of the inclusion of a child with ADHD within mainstream schools and specialist educations, both from the perspective of the child themselves and the wider community. You will gain insight into what these children deal with on a daily basis and how their actions can be misinterpreted as something else entirely. We will reinforce the approach of educating a child with ADHD and how to use some of the positive symptoms of the condition to help them learn in a way that benefits them.

The course discusses the use of medication and therapies, and the impact/possible side effects of these treatments. It also offers practical tips, techniques, and coping strategies for the parents of children with ADHD.

The ADHD Awareness Course will take you up to 150 hours to complete working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace. This is a Level 3 course and will give you 150 CPD (Continued Professional Development) points.

Upon completion of your course assessments, you receive 2 certificates. A certificate from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificate displaying the number of CPD points earned from the course.

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About the course

This online course gives you applied behaviour analysis training, and also explains different types of behaviour and how to observe these using the ABCs of ABA – antecedent, behaviour, and consequence.

The Applied Behaviour Analysis Diploma Course will provide you first with the essential principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis, before expanding on these further as you progress through the course materials. You will gain a greater understanding of the definition of ‘behaviour’ within behavioural psychology and the differences between classical and operant conditioning.

You will learn about different types of stimuli and antecedents that elicit behaviours and what Antecedent-based intervention (ABI) is and how it can be used to alter these behaviours. The course will guide you through creating an ABI plan and how to evaluate the success of its implementation.

The Applied Behaviour Analysis Course explains operant reinforcement and how it relates to developing new behaviours. The course also analyses positive and negative reinforcement, giving a full understanding within the context of ABA. You will learn how reinforcers should be used and the ways in which they can be scheduled, along with how to evaluate their effectiveness.

Shaping and Chaining are covered in this course. You learn why these techniques work and how to use them to provide successive steps in making a non-existent behaviour habitual, through planned task analysis. You will also discover discrete trial training (DTT)  an effective one-to-one teaching method that is particularly powerful in teaching new skills, as well as reinforcing strengths the learner already has in supporting or prerequisite skills.

You will discover how to implement the practice of differential reinforcement (DR) to reinforce an adaptive (or positive) target behaviour/skill whilst ignoring maladaptive behaviour. Also explained in the Applied Behaviour Analysis Diploma Course, is the strategy known as Extinction, which is designed to eliminate (or drastically reduce) an interfering behaviour.

Used to teach a replacement for an interfering behaviour that stems from frustrated efforts to communicate a need or want, functional communication training (FCT) and how to implement it is covered in the Applied Behaviour Analysis Diploma Course.

The functional behavioural assessment (FBA) is the primary method when using Applied Behaviour Analysis to determine the function of a child’s behaviour. The Applied Behaviour Analysis Diploma Course explores this topic extensively before providing a step-by-step guide to using the technique.

Along with learning the techniques involved, you will also be provided with information on how to become an Applied Behaviour Analysis Tutor and the next steps to take upon completion of this course.

The Applied Behaviour Analysis Diploma Course will take you up to 150 hours to complete working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace. This is a Level 3 course and will give you 150 CPD (Continued Professional Development) points.

Upon completion of your course assessments, you receive 2 certificates. A certificate from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificate displaying the number of CPD points earned from the course.

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About the course

Speech Therapy is a practice that assists people with speech and language disorders or who have trouble swallowing. This course takes you through the role of a speech therapist, the anatomical structures and physiological functions of speech and hearing, phonetics, language development and speech disorders, the structure of language, and career paths in this field.

The Speech Therapy Course introduces the subject by outlining the basics. It provides an overview of speech disorders and the therapeutic practices used to treat them. You’ll learn about the role of a speech therapist and the conditions and areas of communication that they focus on. You will be provided with in-depth listing of pathological terms that are used amongst speech and language professionals.

To understand speech you need a good level of knowledge about the anatomical structures and physiological functions of the speech organs. This online speech and language therapy course will talk you through these and the respiratory, laryngeal, and articulatory systems, which all have a bearing on speech.

Similarly, you will learn about audiology. The course talks you through the structures and functions belonging to the auditory system and explains the physiology of hearing. There are numerous tests and screening protocols in the UK used to screen and assess children with suspected hearing disorders. You will learn about these and the signs that could indicate hearing loss, which would require an audiology assessment referral.

How we develop speech and the different stages we go through to learn and process language is a fascinating topic. You will discover the various stages that exist within linguistic advancement in monolingual and bilingual children.

Equally as interesting is Phonetics (the study of human speech sounds). The Speech Therapy Course breaks the topic down into its three branches and explains each fully:

  • Articulatory Phonetics: The study of the way in which speech sounds are produced
  • Acoustic Phonetics: Analyses the physical properties of speech
  • Auditory Phonetics: Illustrates the ways in which sound is perceived
  • Speech Perception, which deals with one’s comprehension of what is being said, is also covered.

The course considers the structure of language, described through morphology, syntax and semantics. In addition to looking at each of these areas you’ll see how children apply the rules that determine speech and language, the common errors they may make and the errors that are symptomatic of speech and communication disorders.

The Speech Therapy Course provides a deep exploration into various conditions that can affect the development of speech and language and how this manifests itself in each case. The conditions covered include neurological disorders, brain injury, drug abuse, intellectual disabilities, vocal abuse, autism and apraxia, plus physical impairments. The course also explains how the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) uses pictorials as a form of treatment of autistic children experiencing speech impairment issues.

For those considering a career as a speech therapist, the course provides information on, and examples of, the various positions and working environments that speech and language therapists may practice in. In each example, duties and responsibilities that occur within these departments are described.

This course, although comprehensive, does not qualify you as a Speech and Language Therapist or to use that protected title. To qualify as such students would be expected to complete a HCPC approved postgraduate course.

The Speech Therapy Course will take you up to 150 hours to complete working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace. This is a Level 3 course and will give you 150 CPD (Continued Professional Development) points.

Upon completion of your course assessments, you receive 2 certificates. A certificate from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificate displaying the number of CPD points earned from the course.

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About the course

No requirement for attendance.

1 x workshop 2 hours

Includes:

  • Learn a brief insight into the background of Makaton and use 30 Signs and Symbols.

Participants workshop documents and certificate of attendance included.

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About the course

No requirement for attendance.

2 x workshops each lasting 3.5 hours

Includes:

  • Background of Makaton
  • Who uses Makaton
  • The different levels of use
  • Examples of use and how to get started
  • Signs and symbols from stages 1, 2 and half of the additional stage of the core vocabulary.

Participants manual, workshop documents and certificate of attendance included.

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About the course

Must have level 1 before attending.

2 x workshops each lasting 3.5 hours

Includes:

  • More information and examples of Makaton, signs and more details of symbols
  • Signs and symbols from stages 3, 4 and the remaining half of the additional stage of the core vocabulary

Participants manual, workshop documents and certificate of attendance included.

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About the course

Must have level 2 before attending.

2 x workshops each lasting 4 hour

Includes:

  • Training on translation and interpretation
  • Signs and symbols from stages 5 and 6 of the core vocabulary.

Participants manual, workshop documents and certificate of attendance included.

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About the course

Must have level 3 before attending.

2 x workshops each lasting 4 hours

Includes:

  • Further training on translation and interpretation
  • Signs and symbols from stages 7, 8 and the IT stage of the core vocabulary.

Participants manual, workshop documents and certificate of attendance included.

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About the course

No requirement for attendance.

1 x workshop 3.5 hours

Learn approx 125 Signs and Symbols from popular nursery rhymes Examples of resources and ways of use How to adapt to suit different abilities.

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About the course

This intensive 13-hour interactive online workshop is designed to teach educational and caregiver teams the theory and protocol for the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS), an evidence-based practice based on Applied Behaviour Analysis, typical language development, and B.F. Skinner’s Verbal Behaviour.

The workshop begins with an introduction to creating the most effective learning environment for implementing PECS and The Pyramid Approach to Education. Included is a discussion of the limitations of teaching other communication modalities (speech, sign, SGD) as an initial communication strategy.

Using presenter demonstrations, role-play opportunities, and video examples participants will gain a thorough understanding and hands-on experience of each of the six phases of PECS. Participants will leave the training with the skills necessary to teach spontaneous requesting, picture discrimination, sentence structure, attributes for expanding language, responding to questions, and commenting. The workshop concludes with a review of the extensive literature supporting PECS as an evidence-based practice, tips to teach your learner to accept being told, “No,” and information related to transitioning from PECS to other communication modalities, such as speech, tablets with AAC apps, or speech generating devices. For those who wish to successfully teach their learners functional communication (whether you have used PECS for some time or are new to the field), this workshop is an essential part of your development.

Tuition Includes:

  • Detailed Handout with integrated activity packet and space for note taking, PECS Training Manual, 2nd Edition, Delegate Practise Bag & Certificate of Attendance. Continuing Professional Development points available.

This course is certified by the CPD certification service (the leading independent CPD accreditation institution) as conforming to continuing professional development principles. All delegates will receive a certificate of attendance detailing eligible CPD hours which can be used as verifiable documentary evidence when submitting CPD recording forms.

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About the course

Embark on a transformative journey into the world of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) with SENDhelp’s Induction for Teaching Assistant’s Course. This comprehensive program is meticulously crafted to equip aspiring teaching assistants with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to excel in inclusive education environments. Participants will delve into the fundamentals of understanding diverse learning needs, effective communication strategies, and practical approaches to supporting students with SEND. The course covers essential topics such as individualized education plans, behaviour management, and fostering an inclusive classroom culture and how best to find work, stay in work and develop your career within the education sector. With a blend of theory and hands-on learning experiences, participants will gain insights into the unique challenges and rewards of supporting students with diverse abilities. Whether you’re new to the role or seeking to enhance your skills, SENDhelp’s Induction for Teaching Assistant’s Course is your gateway to making a positive impact on the lives of students with special educational needs.

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