Language and Learning Support Service - Primary and Special Schools

Key Benefits

• A range of flexible support, including intervention packages for children with dyslexia, numeracy based difficulties or speech, language and communication needs.
• Direct access to a team of highly experienced and skilled practitioners.
• Specialist assessment, training and consultancy services for children who need assistive technology and/or appropriate software to support their written or spoken language.
• A range of accredited or competency based training, including Jump Ahead/dyslexia/ speech and language/numeracy-based difficulties.
• Support to ensure you have your best practice recognised through becoming a Dyslexia Learning Friendly School.
• Early identification of children with low-level literacy and language skills and intervention to support them – this helps to prevent these children developing behavioural problems later in their school career.

Testimonials

High quality training and guidance for teaching and support staff at Jarvis Brook School has impacted significantly on professional practice and provision in the classroom.

- Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCo), Jarvis Brook School

Service Details

Our service offers specialist assessment, training and advice for children with dyslexia or related literacy/numeracy and/or speech, language and communication needs. We help to build and maintain schools’ capacity to respond to the needs of these children and young people.

We adopt a flexible and responsive approach, offering intervention for the whole school, groups or individual children and their families.

We provide assessment, training, support and advice, and put in place a range of strategies and approaches to help children access the curriculum and make progress.

Our service includes:

• early identification/preventative work
• observation and diagnostic assessment for numeracy, literacy and speech, language and communication
• modelling/coaching
• transition meetings at each key stage
• support for SENCOs and new or acting headteachers
• multi-agency surgeries for teachers/teaching assistants supporting children and young people with complex literacy or communication needs
• book banding
• access arrangements
• resource and book loan
• language groups
• setting up tracking mechanisms
• strategic support and policy development
• bespoke training

• Assistive and Augmentative Communication (AAC) and assessment

• parent/carers’ workshops – language/literacy/numeracy.

Pricing

Your school or academy can buy our service at the start of the financial year through a subscription designed to meet your needs and priorities.

• Schools and academies with fewer than 120 pupils on roll – £680 (2 days’ support)
• Schools and academies with more than 120 pupils on roll – £1020 (3 days’ support)
• Additional days for schools and academies that have a subscription – £340 per day or £170 per half day.
• Pay as you use services for schools and academies that do not have a subscription – £550 per day (limited capacity available)

Funded Support

We will continue to provide support for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

This may include:

• advice and/or direct teaching to meet the needs specified within a child’s statement of special educational need
• assessments and reports for annual review meetings
• attendance at annual review meetings
• review and monitoring of services for children who are placed ‘out of authority’ and within independent schools.

Getting The Most From Your Service

Our experience has shown that planning meetings are essential to make the best use of time and prioritise work.

Consider at the beginning of each financial year what work you think will be required for the year. Planning meetings are more effective if they include other inclusion support services.

What Your School Needs To Do

Quality Assurance

Service support and interventions are evaluated from the perspective of schools, families and children.

Terms & Conditions

Support