Integrated Treatment Services

Give your child a head start this summer

If you would like to fast track your child over the summmer holidays ready for the new school term, why not try out our summer school programme.

After seeing your child for assessment (in our clinic or online through Skype if you'd prefer), we can set you and your child a summer programme of work to help prepare them for the new academic year.

Some parents and teachers report that the child is behind in their:

Literacy and phonics
Language concepts
Sentence construction
Grammatical development
Numeracy concepts

A speech and language therapist from our team can assess your child and plan a personalised summer programme - which is fun and engaging.

Many children lack structure over the summer and can often regress in their key skills. A simple programme of work will allow you to practice these skills over the summer so that they feel confident in their new class next term.

Assessment sessions are Ł75.00 * travel will be charged if a home visit is requested.

You may also choose to book direct sessions online or in our clinic, where our therapist will work through the programme with your child.

For more details please call 01509 600646 or fill out our online form to gain further information.

SUMMER GROUPS AND AUSTISM CAMP CONFIRMED

We can now confirm the dates for our summer groups and intensive Autism Summer Camp for 2010:

Early Language Group

We will be running our Early Level Language Group for 5 weeks on the following dates:

Thursday 29th July
Thursday 5th August
Thursday 12th August
Thursday 19th August
Thursday 26th August

Each session will run from 1.30 - 3.00pm at:
The stables
Brooklyn House
44 Brook Street
Shesphed
Leicestershire
LE12 9RG

You must complete all 5 weeks preferably so that they therapist can promote the maximum benefit for your child. Please arrive ready to start at 1.30 prompt.

The cost for the 1.5 hour session per week is Ł75.00 per session, which is discounted from our normal hourly rate usually Ł75.00 per hour).

Each session will be run by our Speech and Language therapist: Melanie Carte, alongside student Speech and Language therapists from De Montfort University Speech and Language Therapy Department.

Our activities will focus on a range of early level language skills: attention and listening, expanding expressive language and ways to communicate needs, increasing better understanding, developing appropriate social skills.

Opportunity will exist for intensive 1;1 withdrawal work and we will include sensory integration activities to help focus the children’s attention.

Please complete the following application form to confirm your place in the group.

Higher Level Language Group

We can now confirm we will be running our Higher Level Language Group for 5 weeks on the following dates:

Thursday 29th JulyThursday 5th August
Thursday 12th August
Thursday 19th August
Thursday 26th August (this session will run 3.00 – 4.30pm)

Each session will run from 10.30 – 12.00pm (with the exception of the last week – see above) at:
The stables
Brooklyn House
44 Brook Street
Shesphed
Leicestershire
LE12 9RG

You must complete all 5 weeks preferably so that they therapist can promote the maximum benefit for your child. Please arrive ready to start at 10.30am prompt.

The cost for the 1.5 hour session per week is Ł75.00 per session, which is discounted from our normal hourly rate usually Ł75.00 per hour).

Each session will be run by our Speech and Language therapist: Sarah Savage, alongside student Speech and Language therapists from De Montfort University Speech and Language Therapy Department.

Our activities will focus on a range of higher level language skills: understanding meanings and double meanings, understanding appropriate social communication skills to use, expanding expressive language skills, increasing higher level understanding,
Opportunity will exist for intensive 1;1 withdrawal work and we will include sensory integration activities to help focus the children’s attention.

Please complete the following application form to confirm your place in the group.

Intensive Autism Summer Camp

We can now confirm we will be running our Intensive Autism Summer Camp on the following dates:

Tuesday 24th August
Wednesday 25th August
Thursday 26th August
Friday 27th August

At:

Hope House School

Barnby Road
Newark
Nottinghamshire
NG24 3NE

The group will run from 9.30 – 12.30pm and will take the following format:

9.30am     Morning activities
                 Snack (you will need to send your child with their normal snack please including a drink)
                 Late morning activities
12.30pm   Collect

The camp will run for 3 hours each day and costs Ł150.00 per child per day. This is discounted from our normal hourly rate of Ł75.00 per hour)

Each morning will be run by our Speech and Language therapist: Sarah Savage and Amie Burrows, alongside student Speech and Language therapists from De Montfort University Speech and Language Therapy Department.

Our activities will focus on a range of communication skills: attention and listening, expanding expressive language and ways to communicate needs, increasing better understanding, developing appropriate social skills. Opportunity will exist for intensive 1;1 withdrawal work, inclusion of sensory integration activities, practical self help skills and learning opportunities using the play world equipment and the small holding farm animals at Hope House School.

We will not require you to stay on site throughout the camp, however we will require you to leave an emergency contact number and be available to collect your child should we need to call you.

Please complete the following application form to confirm your place in the group.

All places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. So please return your completed forms by email if possible to info@integratedtreatments.co.uk or in the post to:

The stables
Brooklyn House
44 Brook Street
Shesphed
Leicestershire
LE12 9RG

We look forward to working with you and your child shortly

Sarah Needham

Director of Integrated Treatment Services &

Speech and Language Therapist.

STEPS Conductive Education Centre - Youth Workers required

Our local neighbours at STEPS have a great opportunity if you would like to become a youth leader.

The appointment will be for two Youth Leaders, 1 male and 1 female to oversee 2 clubs for children and young people with motor disabilities.

Aim: to support the children/young people in both groups to gain confidence, self esteem and new life skills

Responsible to: The Children’s Centre Manager and Young People of Stepping Out

Responsible for: Two different groups of young people

Approximately 8 children aged 7-14, all with physical disabilities (Small Steps)
Approximately 7 young people aged 15+ all with physical disabilities (Stepping Out)

Hours: To accommodate the two groups these will need to be flexible at times but it is anticipated that it will normally be 8 hours per month, possibly 12 if the activities of the older groups necessitate

The successful candidates:

The successful candidates will be working, and playing, with both groups and will each need to have an enhanced CRB check which Steps will organise.

Small Steps:

There are currently 8 children in this age group, with a range of disabilities, who are keen to get started!

It is envisaged that this group will meet together, possibly on the first Saturday of each month, from about 10 am and finishing with a packed lunch about 12.30 - 1.00 pm.

The aim of the group is to provide a safe, stimulating environment where the children can mix with their peers and socialise in a variety of exciting and challenging activities whilst encouraging them to develop their independence skills. Appropriate outside activities and outings should be encouraged, as well as people coming in for specialist activities occasionally.

Stepping Out:

There are currently 7 young adults involved in this group, all of whom have been through, or are going through main stream school but want a place where they can chill out with their mates, go on outings and residentials together eg the Calvert Trust. Anoter has expressed interest in joining. They also want to increase their independent living skills. There are professional therapists available to give appropriate advice to the youngsters and will support and help the youth leaders on the best way to support and encourage them.

These young people have ideas of their own but need help and encouragement to fulfil them. This group needs a planned schedule of events which will boost their confidence and self esteem. This group focuses on independent living skills at a higher level than Small Steps. Activities could include First Aid training, ‘Ready, Steady, Cook’, starting a young enterprise small business (help is available for this) as well as social activities.

On ‘chill out’ days it is envisaged that they will meet on the same Saturday as the younger group and join them for lunch (maybe cooking it for them!!) On outing days it may be necessary to meet on a different Saturday.

It may be necessary for us to employ two different sets of leaders one for each club as it is quite a wide brief. It is important that the successful candidates for the Stepping Out group like dogs as there are two assistance dogs who also belong, one chocolate Labrador and one golden retriever!

Pay: Ł9.00 per hour

Further Details: Phone the Centre Manager, Trish Edwards, for further details, to look round the setting or meet some of the young people involved – 01509 506878. Alternatively, send your CV with an accompanying letter saying why you want this job and what you think you can specifically offer to these young people.

www.stepscentre.org.uk

Registered Charity no: 1063143

Coffee afternoon – Question and Answer Session

We are pleased to announce that we are now planning to run a Bi monthly Friday Coffee afternoon for parents.

We want to make this accessible for both MUMS and DADS as well as carers and you DONT need to be receiving therapy from one of our therapists in order to attend, everyone is welcome.

After asking parents the best time for both parents to get along, we have agreed a FRIDAY AFTERNOON 12.30 – 2.00pm is the best fit!

The afternoon will be an opportunity to meet other parents, whose children might have a specific diagnosis or might not, but who are requiring information about therapy services, schooling and statements, therapy approaches, referral routes to access NHS services and much moreEach session we hope to give an overview about a specific topic between 12.30 and 1.00pm;

Statementing
Choosing a school
Accessing NHS therapy
Working with Outreach and Pre school teachers
Choosing therapy approaches
Specific therapy approaches – Sensory Integration, Talk Tools,Colourful Semantics.

We hope to give you opportunity to ask burning questions affecting you and your child currently between 1.00 and 1.30pm

Most important – we hope to create opportunity to meet other mums AND Dads in a low key and relaxed forum to build support networks and share experiences between 1.30pm and 2.00pm

So that we are well catered with tea and cakes – please contact us to book your place/s each session.

NEXT SESSIONS:

Friday 26th March 12.30pm to 2.00pm
Friday 28th May 12.30pm to 2.00pm
Friday 30th July 12.30pm to 2.00pm

VENUE:

Steps Conductive Education Centre

40 Loughborough Road

Shepshed

Leicestershire

LE12 9DN

www.stepscentre.org.uk/

BOOK YOU PLACE

You can EMAIL: info@integratedtreatments.co.uk

Or call: 01509 600646

N.B - Please provide your child's name when booking you place/s

N.B :UNFORTUNATELY IT WILL NOT BE APPROPRIATE TO BRING YOUR CHILD WITH YOU ON THIS OCCAISION.

Colourful Semantics Kit available to buy

We have recently come across Daisy Kits by Kate and Natasha, who have taken out the work of needing to develop your own Colourful Semantics kits.

As you will have read our team have had some fantastic results using colorful semantics with a range of client groups.

Here are Natasha and Kate's comments about their packs:

Devised for children needing Speech and Language Therapy (Colourful Semantics).
Develops spoken language and literacy.
Can help with a wide range of communication difficulties, including language delay / disorder, speech difficulties, Dyspraxia, physical disabilities (e.g.Cerebral Palsy), Autism, and Learning Disability.
Teachers also use it for children with dyslexia, ADHD, children learning English as a second language and for children who rarely speak.

· Contains ready-made materials and easy to follow instructions for the various activity packs within it.

Can be used individually, in pairs or in group.
Begins with picture description, then moves on to activities to practise using the sentence structures socially, in real situations.

To order your STEMS kit please download the following form print and post order form to the address listed.

We will continue to provide our free downloads of colourful semantic resources online for your pursual. Do ask us a question at any point.

Sarah Needham

Director of Integrated Treatment Services

March 2010

Occupational Therapy Clinic running throughout March at I.T.S

We are pleased to announce that Alison Harris - experienced paediatric Occupational Therapist with a practice based in Derby is offering;

Individual Therapy Sessions

at the I.T.S. base in Shepshed on

MONDAYS throughout MARCH 2010

This is a pilot project to judge interest and plan for further collaborative working with I.T.S.

Sessions can be based around

Core stability and coordination skills
Fine motor skills
Handwriting - utilising Alison's well known Start Write Stay Right programme

Sessions must be pre-booked and will all take place on Mondays during March.

Sessions will be 30 mins and depending on the age and ability of the child.

Alison can offer two consecutive sessions to work on two areas. For example, one session on coordination and the second on fine motor skills.

Alternatively, a single session can be booked. Ideally, for most benefit, Alison would prefer to see the children each week for four weeks, with active engagement and practice being done in between sessions.

You are welcome to invite your child's Learning support assistant to observe the session and learn these skills.

Session cost is Ł45 and this will include loan equipment and informal written targets during this period of treatment.

An initial assessment should be separately booked with Alison.

The sessions are appropriate for children with;

Dyspraxia
Developmental coordination disorder
Specific difficulties with fine motor skills such as children with Down’s Syndrome, or hemiplegia.
High functioning Autism or Asperger’s syndrome.

Alison may also be able to offer Sensory Integration therapy at a later date, so if this is an area of interest for your child, please let us know.

For more information about Alison, see www.thelocaltherapycompany.co.uk or contact her on 07917 332450.

Talk Tools Assessment Clinic and Programme update clinic running every month

We are happy to introduce our new Talk Tools monthly Assessment Clinic and Programme Update Clinic.

With an increasing number of our clients taking up the this therapy approach, we are conscious of how we can help you to keep down costs whilst accessing frequent support in using Talk Tools therapy.

Every 2nd Friday and last Monday of EVERY month we shall offer;

2 hours Assessment slots for new clients - to be fully assessed using the Talk Tools therapy approach.

1 hour Programme Update slots for existing clients, already using a Talk Tools therapy programme.

Assessment will include:

A case history of the client, taken from family members. A Pre-assessment case history form may be sent to you prior to your appointment.
A full Talk Tools Assessment utilising the most beneficial Talk Tools methods based on your description and the clients presentation.
A verbal therapy summary describing the Talk Tools approaches that the client would most benefit from.
An list of equipment you are recommended to purchase
A full written report will be charged separately in relation to our standard therapy terms and conditions cost. This will only be written on parental/clients request.
Assessment Session - charged at Ł160.00
To book please contact Sarah Needham on 07841 197098 or use our enquiry form

Programme update will include:

An initial discussion about the homework you have undertaken
A re-assessment of your child using the advised therapy programmes
Demonstration of the next steps in your therapy programme and introduction of new activities
A verbal summary describing the updated Talk Tools approaches that the client would most benefit from.
An list of equipment you are recommended to purchase.
A full programme update written report will be charged separately in relation to our standard therapy terms and conditions cost. This will only be written on parental/clients request.
Programme Update Session - charged at Ł75.00
N.B you may be advised to book a longer session, if your child takes time to settle into therapy and/or if your child has complex needs.
To book please contact Sarah Needham on 07841 197098 or use our enquiry form

Please note our Talk Tools therapy assessment and programme update sessions, will not assess your child's language development and other communication skills. You are welcome to request a fuller speech and language assessment/therapy session with the same therapist at any point.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

All the therapists at Integrated Treatment Services would like to wish you a

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

It has been a full and exciting year for us in 2009. We have taken on two of the latest approaches;

Sensory integration
Talk Tools

Both have been crucial to our success in delivering therapy across our families and schools as well as across our adult caseloads.

We are pleased to announce that we will be delivering monthly

Talk Tools assessment session on the 1st Tuesday of every month

and monthly

Programme Update Sessions on the thrid Tuesday of every month.

This is in response to the many requests we have been receiving from groups such as the Downs syndrome groups across the Midlands as well as individual families.

These sessions will run in our clinic, however we are also prepared to offer a mobile clinic, where a greater demand exists in one area.

We have had Melanie Carte and Robena Dhadda join our therapy team in the latter end of this year, offering therapy services to our clients and weekends and further services to adults.

We are also pleased to welcome Sarah Savage to the team in 2010, who will also bring a range of experience to the team.

We wish you a relaxing and enjoyable break and look forwards to providing first class therapy services again to you all in 2010.

Best wishes and enjoy the festivities

Sarah Needham

Director of services & Speech and Language Therapist

Our therapists can offer Talk Tools Therapy

Since April 2009 our speech and language therapists and occupational therapists have been undertaking training in Talk Tools. We purchased the range of therapy equipment to support our therapists in offering this approach across their caseloads.

This approach is an American approach by Sara Rosenfield- Johnson. It believes in assimilating the experiences used through oral -motor exercises and feeding to develop speech sound patterns and good oral motor skills.

We have been achieving outstanding results with this method of therapy for a range of children including those with Down's Syndrome and Autistic Spectrum Disorders.

The straw hierarchy has been offering a fantastic solution to working on tongue retraction for early feeding skills and to then promote speech sound development.

Some of our young people with Autism have been successful in drinking with straws for the first time in 14 years!

They have also reduced the amount of 'drooling' previously experienced.

For children with Down syndrome we have eradicated tongue thrusting for some children and reduced it significantly for others. We have also found that this approach has provided fantastic sensory integration experiences, helping students to calm and focus their attention ready for work activities.

We have found the bubble hierarchy to be successful with children and teenagers who haven’t been able to blow bubbles prior to this approach. Moving through the hierarchy, popping the bubble on their lips, blowing the bubble off the wand, blowing a bubble through the wand and slowly learning to blow for a sustained distance. Bubble blowing is a fantastic activity to promote tongue retraction, lip rounding and jaw stability.

The horn hierarchy has proved an excellent sensory integration activity, increasing children's sustained blowing skills. This is helping to build up postural control and core strength and is having a positive effect on calming and focussing their attention. The horns are aiding speech sound development and are so motivating to the child.

We have used further approaches within Talk Tools, such as the jaw graders, the button pull exercises. chewy chews and many more. All of the activities are really appealing to the young people we work with and do not feel like work in the slightest. Therapy homework has become easier for parents who have found more traditional homework harder to achieve.

Further details can be found on the following website

http://www.talktools.net/

www.talktools.net/s.nl/it.I/id.3/.f

As a therapy team, we shall now be including this approach in our therapy to children and adolescents, as well as older clients. Adult's recovering from Strokes and acquired injuries have also seen significant benefits from this approach.

Other useful sites, which contains articles about this therapy approach are;

http://www.therapy-resources.com/page.php?page=therapy

Do read further articles written by Sara Rosenfield-Jonhson within our Resources section titled; Talk Tools.

If your setting is interested in Talk Tools assessment sessions or programme updates, do get in contact with Sarah to dicuss further 07841 197098.

Sarah Needham

Director of I.T.S &

Speech and Language Therapist

September 2009

Back to school :(

We are more than familiar with that worrying feeling that occurs when your children goes back to school and as a parents you want to ensure that all the correct support is in place.

If you need support in knowing what your child is entitled to receive - speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, educational psychology, specialist teaching teams, then please do not hesitate to pick up the phone and we will happily help guide you 01509 600646 or email us through our enquiry form .

Ensuring that the full therapy and learning support package is in place is essential to your child's learning.

We are frequently contacted by parents looking to firm up what their NHS therapy department and Local Authority can offer their child. .

We have good relationships with both Local Authorities and NHS departments in order to facilitate you finding out more about your child's provision.

Often parents choose to supplement therapy with a private provider, but we pride ourselves in helping you to access all the free statutory support first.

We look forward to lending our listening ears and helping hands of support.

Have a good September and a fresh start at school.

Sarah Needham

Director of Services &

Speech and Language Therapist

Integrated Treatment Services

Speech and Language Therapists
& Associated Services

Give your child a head start this summer

SUMMER GROUPS AND AUSTISM CAMP CONFIRMED