Support to Staff
We are experienced in working with mainstream schools and more specialist educational placements as well as within private settings.
ITS Therapists are skilled in supplementing any existing level of provision provided by the NHS speech and language therapy departments as well as supporting the school to access these statutory services where not in place.
We are proud to offer a professional, qualitative service, ensuring that all purchasers have the ability to measure and audit our services provided.
Therapy Approaches
ITS therapists have experience of working with children from pre-school to secondary school
age and beyond. Our therapists are skilled at supporting settings to meet the needs of their
students with communication difficulties and
additional learning difficulties.
This may include students who:
additional learning difficulties.
This may include students who:
- Hold a statement of special educational needs
- Are on the school action or school action plus register
- Are disadvantaged by a specific learning difficulty
- Are disadvantaged by social deprivation
We support settings and their staff to:
- Observe, record and evaluate students presenting behaviour and communication needs
- Identify strategies and adaptations to support student’s access to the curriculum
- Identify a successful learning style for such students
- Take a holistic view, accounting for all the communicative settings the students are part of
- Evaluate the daily communication opportunities within the classroom
- Evaluate the visual communication environment
- Support IEP writing and lesson plan adaptation
Our most successful working method is for our therapists to join the teacher in delivering lessons, as well as working as a learning support alongside individual children or groups of children. We can work across all curriculum topics facilitating learning opportunities and developing good communication.
We recognise the importance of delivering therapy that meets the environmental needs of the classroom as well as placing little demand on teaching staff.
Integrated Treatment Services can provide tailored training within the school and follow up this training directly within the classroom. We avoid any form of pre-set training we strongly believe in not relying on pre-conceived methods.
Strategic Support
Our therapists also support settings through:
- Workshop training to identify areas of special educational need, providing teaching staff with a greater practical understanding around these students needs as well as developing successful teaching strategies to accommodate for them
- Delivering parent workshops to improve the effective working relationships between the school and the parents around the special educational needs of the child
- Delivery of language, speech and social communication groups within the school alongside learning support and teaching staff
- Demonstration of visual systems such as using visual timetables within the classroom, using signing systems to support children’s attention and cued articulation to support children’s literacy and speech development
ITS therapists are experienced and aware of the requirements of OFSTED and can work positively with staff and
management groups to;
Evaluate good communication environments, to make them more effective to children’s’ learning
- Link in student’s I.E.P targets across the curriculum, to include communication and behaviour targets
- Facilitate consistent recording methods for all learning, communication and behaviour targets
- Work alongside SENCOs to enhance the understanding around the statutory speech and language therapy needs of students in order to secure support funding
- Develop measurable scales for staff and management teams to track changes in students with special educational needs
- Support staff in generating communication policies and develop other similar material required by the setting
Providing a Multi - disciplinary team of therapists
ITS are able to provide a multi-disciplinary team of associated therapists, who are familiar with each others work and can support the holistic needs of the students and thier settings. These include; Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Creatvie Expressive Therapists - music, art, dance/dram and Psychologists - Educational , Clinical and Cognitive Neuro psychology.
ITS development managers are happy to meet with your management team to discuss the therapy requirements and present an individualised proposal to suit your setting. Please contact us for a complimentary consultation at your convenience.
