Glossary: Key stage 3

.b Mindfulness

.b is a mindfulness curriculum for 11-18 year olds in schools. Each .b lesson (between 40 minutes and 1 hour) is designed for use in the classroom to teach a distinct mindfulness skill.

‘.b’ stands for ‘stop’ and ‘be’, capturing an important life-skill: being able to step back from the busy-ness of habitual activity and the relentless chatter of the mind. This offers greater space and clarity to make choices that support well- being in many ways. Mindfulness trains us to direct our attention to whatever is happening in the present moment: our breathing, other physical sensations, thoughts, emotions, or even everyday activities like walking and eating. This awareness means we can respond more skilfully to whatever the present-moment throws at us.

On request from .b Mindfulness website

Blob Tree

Blob Trees are a visual stimulus, which consists of many blob figures on or around a tree. The tree represents a setting, such as a school or group, and the blobs represent different emotions and feelings. The tools can be used in a variety of settings and is especially useful in the classroom. Teachers can easily start a discussion by asking students which blob they relate to, especially since there is no right or wrong interpretation of the blobs. The tools give students an opportunity to share their issues and what they’re feeling. It has been scientifically shown to be effective as a means of expressing feelings and emotions with pupils, pupils and adults.

The Blob Tree can be easily used in the classroom by both teachers and students as no professional training is necessary. However, Blob Tree does offer blob training sessions either online or in person so that teachers can become experts on the communication tools and use them to their highest potential.

Minimum: £3 for a single stimulus Maximum: £30 for a pack of stimuli

Bounce Forward

Formerly known as How to Thrive, bounce forward is the UK implementation of the Penn Resiliency Programme. They are a UK-based organisation who specialise in training schools to help pupils become more resilient individuals using The Penn Resiliency Programme which is an intervention involving 18 hours of sessions based on the idea that beliefs about events activate and mediate our emotions and behaviours in situations. The programme teaches cognitive behaviours and social problem-solving skills. It encourages pupils to challenge negative beliefs and use evidence to more accurately appraise situations and the behaviour of others. It also supports the development of effective coping mechanisms for individuals to use. This intervention is based at pupils aged 5 to 16 years.

Costs vary depending on length and content of training and details can be found on the website

Boxall Profile

The Boxall Profile is an online resource for the assessment of pupils’ social, emotional and behavioural development in all educational settings. The Boxall Profile is a two-part assessment tool designed to track the progress of cognitive development and behavioural traits of pupils through their education. The two-part checklist, which is completed by staff, is quick and identifies the levels of skills the pupils possess to access learning.

Minimum: Tokens for individual users (1 token = 1 assessment and 1 learning plan) aimed at users looking to assess a small number of pupils in their setting. 20 tokens for £30.00+ VAT Maximum: Yearly subscription for organisations

Up to 300 pupils £325.00+ VAT 301-600 pupils £500.00+VAT

601-2000 pupils £900.00+VAT

Circle of Friends

Circle of Friends is an approach to enhancing the inclusion, in a mainstream setting, of any pupil or young person who is experiencing difficulties in school because of disability, personal crisis or because of their challenging behaviour towards others. Circle of Friends works by mobilising the young person’s peers to provide support and engage in problem solving with the person in difficulty. This intervention is aimed at pupils aged 5 to 18 years.

Creating Circle of Friends Book £17.99

Contact Salford EPS, eps@salford.gov.uk, for further information on their training package and intervention delivery

Cool Connections with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Encouraging Self-esteem, Resilience and Well-being in Children and Young People Using CBT Approaches

Cool Connections is a workbook that provides a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach to positively modifying the everyday thoughts and behaviours of pupils aged 9 to 14. Combining a summary of CBT principles and step-by-step guidelines on how to use the materials appropriately with a mixture of games, handouts, home activities and therapeutic exercises, “Cool Connections” is designed to encourage resilience and self-esteem and reduce feelings of anxiety and depression. This workbook is fully photocopiable.

£17

DEAL: Developing Emotional Awareness and Listening

DEAL is a free resource for teachers and other educational professionals designed to help develop resilience in young people. DEAL includes lesson plans, activities, hand-outs, DEAL digital resources, teachers’ notes and staff training materials can all be accessed and downloaded at any time from Samaritans website.

Free

Elklan

Elklan have a range of courses to suit you whether you are an early years worker, teacher or assistant working with children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN). Their courses will enable you to develop the speech and language skills of ALL children but especially those with speech and language difficulties. Delivered by local tutors throughout the UK they give practical advice and strategies that are also suitable for children with English as an additional language and other special educational needs.

Elklan courses are run locally by the Salford Speech and Language Therapy Service. Courses run

regularly throughout the year and can also delivered for individual schools. Please discuss training with your Link SLT

ELSA Support Intervention Package

ELSA offer a range of downloadable and printable resources to support social and emotional learning, through both 1:1 and group work.

£1 - £30, depending on the resource

Emotion Coaching

Emotion Coaching is a whole school approach, which focuses on using emotional validation strategies when a child is upset, angry or distressed. Through empathetic engagement the child’s emotional state is verbally

acknowledged and validated, promoting a sense of security and feeling ‘felt’. This activates changes in the child’s neurological system and allows the child to calm down, physiologically and psychologically.

Contact Salford EPS, eps@salford.gov.uk, for further information on their training package and intervention delivery

Emotionally Friendly Schools

Emotionally Friendly Schools  is a flexible whole-setting approach to improving children and young people’s emotional health and well-being. The programme will support you to effectively identify and respond to a broad range of emotional needs of children and young people, raising their well-being to enable them to succeed and thrive.

£500 - £995

Contact emotionallyfriendlysettings@salford. gov.uk

for further information on their training

package and intervention delivery

Emotional Literacy Assessment

A standardised assessment measuring pupils' (aged 7 to 16 years) emotional literacy and providing ideas for intervention. The assessment is designed to discover where pupils’ strengths and weaknesses are in the area  of emotional literacy, in order to provide a better understanding of these competences and, where necessary, to highlight areas for intervention. The assessments take the form of three checklists: Pupil, teacher and parent.

The checklists can be carried out either on photocopiable paper forms, or onscreen using the supplied CD. The assessment also provides information about techniques to develop and support pupils, with specific activities to support each of the five subscales.

£157.45

FRIENDS

Programme

FRIENDS is a cognitive behavioural intervention that develops pupils’ emotional resilience and prevents or intervenes early in the course of anxiety and depression. It does so by developing social and emotional skills to effectively cope with challenging situations. FRIENDS has been delivered to an estimated 800,000 pupils and adolescents worldwide and has been noted as one of the most robustly supported programmes for internalising disorders. The intervention is aimed at pupils aged 4 - 16 years.

Online training: £150 per participant

/ £1,500 group training (up to 50 individuals)

HeartMath

HeartMath, which can be implemented by educators, clinicians or parents, usually consists of six to 12 sessions, although more sessions can be conducted as needed. Participants learn coherence-building techniques for emotional self-regulation, which teach them to focus on the physical area of the heart through deep, rhythmic breathing while thinking of positive feelings. This process is supported by emWave technology and using an ear or finger sensor connected to a computer running the emWave software, participants can view the different coherence levels produced by their heart rhythms (an indicator of physiological activity) in response to stressful and non-stressful thoughts. This visualisation allows them to monitor their pulse rates during different activities and learn how to self-regulate their emotions and maintain the breathing and heart rhythm pattern that is associated with non-stressful thoughts. The software also includes three age-appropriate games of varying length, which help participants to practise coherence-building techniques.

Site licences starts at £1500 per organisation

Lego Therapy

Lego-based therapy (LeGoff et al 2014) is an evidence-based approach that aims to develop social communication skills in autistic pupils, such as sharing, turn-taking, following rules, using names and problem-solving. In practice, pupils work in groups of three with each participant having a distinct role to build a Lego model collaboratively.

A comprehensive guide to setting up LEGO Therapy groups is available to promote social skills in children with autism spectrum disorders and related conditions through group LEGO building.

£10 - £30 for each Lego set Workbook: £14.99

Contact Salford EPS, eps@salford.gov.uk, for further information on their training package and intervention delivery

Mental Health First Aid Training

Mental Health First Aid training for staff will support their understanding of fostering positive peer relationships.

£125 per person for half day online training

Multidimensional Students Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS)

The MSLSS was designed to provide a multidimensional profile of children’s life satisfaction judgments. It is suitable for children and young people aged between 8-18 years.

Free for research use

Nurture Groups

Nurture groups are an in-school, teacher-led psychosocial intervention of groups of less than 12 students that aim to replace missing or distorted early nurturing experiences for both pupils and young adults. They achieve this by immersing students in an accepting and warm environment which helps develop positive relationships with both teachers and peers.

A part-time nurture group (from 3-15 hours a week) costs an average of

£48.58 an hour to run. A full-time nurture group (16+ hours) costs an average of £54.89 an hour to run

Philosophy for Children (Topsy Page)

A range of resources to support the development of effective child talk. Topsy also offers a Talk Audit where she will visit your school and analyse child and teacher talk, then provide recommendations.

£300 for a two-day training course Contact for school package prices

Pupils Attitudes to Self and School (PASS)

PASS is an all-age attitudinal survey that provides a measurement of a pupil’s attitudes towards themselves as learners and their attitudes towards school. The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete as pupils read and comment on 50 statements. The PASS can be used with pupils aged 4 - 18 years.

Primary setup £150.00 per school Secondary setup £250.00 per school Individual pupil survey £1.00 per pupil Contact details: To buy PASS and discuss requirements,

call 0330 123 5375

Pyramid Club

Pyramid is a targeted club that supports children who are shy, anxious and withdrawn and who therefore find it difficult to make friends and often underperform in school. Each club accommodates eight to 12 children and runs as ten weekly sessions of one-and-a-half hours, delivered by trained club leaders who could be school staff (teaching assistants, learning mentors, etc.) or internal or external volunteers. The Pyramid model has been successfully used for over 20 years and operates in schools across the UK. It is owned and overseen by the University of West London. The pyramid club is aimed at children and young people aged 7 to 14 years old.

Contact name: Bronach Hughes or the Salford Educational Psychology Service.

£200 per school (up to three staff) for two half-day training sessions and materials

Contact Salford EPS, eps@salford.gov.uk, for further information on their training package and intervention delivery

R Time

R Time is a structured programme that builds and enhances relationships for children and young people. Each R time session lasts 10 - 15 minutes and takes place once a week.

£3 - £70 per resource

Schools and Students Health Education Unit (SHEU) surveys

SHEU provides a range of questionnaires that are suitable for children and adolescents. The administrator has the option to choose from a range of topics about lifestyle and wellbeing. There are surveys for different groups such as children, parents/carers and staff and governors. The questionnaires can be adapted for special educational needs or English as an additional language status. SHEU is suitable for primary and secondary school students.

Prices can range from less than

£100 to carry out a primary school parent perception survey online, to some hundreds of pounds to do a full lifestyle survey on paper with

secondary school children in two-year groups

Second Step

Second Step is a whole-school approach to social-emotional learning (SEL) that helps transform schools into supportive, successful learning environments uniquely equipped to help children thrive.

See website for up to date pricing

Smart Moves

Smart Moves® is a programme of evidence-based short sessions to give pupils small learn-able skills (Smart Moves) that increase resilience.

Free

Socially Speaking

Socially Speaking will help you to introduce and practise skills your pupils need to develop and maintain relationships and to lead independent lives outside the school context. It is a social skills programme that lasts a whole school year and is divided into three units: let’s communicate, let’s be friends, and let’s practise. It is suitable for 7–11 years and older pupils with SEN.

£20

Social Skills Improvement System (SSiS)

The Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) Rating Scales enable targeted assessment of individuals and small groups to help evaluate social skills, problem behaviours, and academic competence. Three different forms are available to be completed by a teacher, parent and child. The scales are suitable for ages 3 to 18 years.

SSIS Rating Scales Manual £136.49 SSIS forms available in bundles of 25 hard copies or computer entry forms Price of bundles varies from £65.99 -

£78.59 depending upon type of form and age-range eg 25 hard copies teacher forms for ages 3 – 18 costs

£65.99

S.S. Grin

S.S. GRIN (Social Skills Group Intervention) is a targeted intervention. Designed in a small group format, it addresses bullying, victimisation and social-emotional competence. Specific social-emotional skills are taught through dynamic instruction and practice. With fully scripted lesson plans, group leaders are guided in how to use modelling, positive reinforcement and cognitive re-framing to support the specific skills of each session. The S.S. GRIN programmes are appropriate for school, after-school, community and clinic settings. The techniques used during the programme include lectures, role plays, brainstorming, games and many other hands-on activities like collaborative drawing. The programmes have been tested and proven effective as a weekly intervention, but they can be adapted to meet the specific needs of a setting. This intervention is aimed at 5 to 16-year olds.

£85 per site per version (any staff member can access the materials)

Starving the Anger Gremlin: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anger Management for Young

People (Gremlin and Thief CBT Workbooks)

This workbook supports pupils to control their anger effectively. Made up of engaging and fun activities, it helps them to understand why they get angry and how their anger affects themselves and others and teaches them how to manage angry thoughts and behaviours. The programme is based on effective cognitive behavioural therapy principles, can be worked through by a young person on their own or with a practitioner or parent, and is suitable for pupils aged 5-9.

£13.00

Starving the Anxiety Gremlin: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anxiety Management  for Young People (Gremlin and Thief CBT Workbooks)

Starving the Anxiety Gremlin is a resource to help pupils understand different types of anxiety and how to manage them, including panic attacks, phobias, social anxiety, generalised anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Based on cognitive behavioural principles that link thoughts, feelings and behaviours, the techniques described help pupils to understand why they get anxious and how they can ‘starve’ their anxiety gremlin in order to manage their anxiety. This workbook uses fun activities and real-life stories and can be used by pupils aged 5-9 on their own or with a parent or practitioner.

£12.00

Starving the Depression Gremlin: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Managing Depression for Young People (Gremlin and Thief CBT Workbooks)

This workbook helps pupils aged 10+ to understand their feelings by explaining what depression is, how it develops and the impact it can have on the lives of pupils. Based on the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy, this workbook aims to empower the reader to change how they think and act in order to manage their depression. Starving the Depression Gremlin can help support and inform wider therapeutic work with pupils with depression, and it can be used independently or with a parent or practitioner.

£14.00

Stirling Children’s Wellbeing Scale

A positively worded, holistic measure of children’s psychological and emotional wellbeing. SCWBS is developed by the Stirling Council Educational Psychology Service (UK). It is a positively worded measure of emotional and psychological wellbeing in children. For children and young people aged between 8-15 years.

Free

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)

A brief behavioural screening measure for early detection of strengths and emotional problems in pupils and adolescents. It covers five key areas of emotional development: emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationship problems, pro-social behaviour. A full can profile to be gathered as it includes views from parents and staff as well as the pupil or young person.

Free

Why Try?

The WhyTry program was created to provide simple, hands-on solutions for dropout prevention, violence prevention, truancy reduction, and increased academic success. The WhyTry curriculum utilizes a series of ten visual analogies that teach important life skills (e.g., decisions have consequences; dealing with peer pressure; obeying laws and rules; plugging in to support systems).

On request

Zones of Regulation

Zones of Regulation is an intervention that supports the development of self-regulation and emotional control.

Free resources on website

Contact Salford EPS, eps@salford.gov.uk, for further information on their training package and intervention delivery

Cogmed

Cogmed Working Memory Training is an evidence-based program for helping children, adolescents, and adults sustainably improve their attention skills and working memory. The effect of Cogmed has been demonstrated in controlled trials and is delivered through web-based training under the supervision of a qualified Cogmed coach. It can be used with small groups or an entire class.

Minimum: £150 for five accounts and one Coach

Maximum: £960 for sixty accounts and six coaches

Clicker 8

The Clicker 8 is a child-friendly word processing tool, which includes speech feedback, word prediction, voice notes, picture support and the ability to provide topic specific sentences sets and word banks. The Clicker 8 also includes mind mapping, matching activities and speaking and listening activities.

£350 for one school for a three-year licence

Jungle Memory

Jungle Memory is an online working memory intervention for children aged 7-16. It is a game-based intervention which is designed to be played four times per week for a period of eight weeks. Each session involves three games and lasts between 15-30 minutes. A 'log tracker' assesses how much access the child has had to the intervention and customised feedback is provided to users at the end of each training session. The intervention provides data relating to individual progress and score-comparison with peers of the same age.

Approximately £40 for an individual 8-week subscription

Lucid Memory Booster

Lucid Memory Booster is a programme which teaches flexible memory strategies for children aged 4-11 years. Memory Booster is presented in the form of an adventure game to help keep children highly motivated and on task. This programme is stated to be especially useful for children with dyslexia or identified memory difficulties and has been positively evaluated within research.

On request

Accelerated Reading

Accelerated Reading  is a computer program which helps teachers and librarians manage and monitor children’s independent reading practice.

Maximum £450 for 50 children per year

Minimum £9 per child per year

Achieve 3000

Achieve 3000 is an online program that is designed to accelerate literacy growth for all children from Year 2 to 12. The program provides high-interest current news event articles at the child’s reading level.

On request

Boostingreading@secondary

Boosting Reading @ Secondary is a targeted individual intervention, to be delivered over a 10-week period. It is designed to improve reading skills and enable pupils to read with understanding and enjoyment. It is delivered by staff who have attended training; a teacher (preferably on the Senior Management Team) is also expected to attend the training and act as school co-ordinator.

On request

Dyslexia Gold

Dyslexia Gold is an evidence-based programme to help children who are not making progress despite high quality phonics teaching. This programme is designed for primary and secondary school children, and any educational level. The intervention addresses skills required for reading (vision problems, poor tracking and auditory problems).

£24 a month

Lexia Power Up Literacy

Lexia Power Up Literacy is an evidence-based intervention to support reading, comprehension and vocabulary skills.

On request

PIXL Code

PiXL CODE is a reading accuracy intervention, which is designed to support those in Key Stage 3 and 4 who may be struggling to read. The intervention provides a systematic, personalised approach to learning to read and is informed by evidence-based methods to help pupils retain reading accuracy.

£2700 + VAT for over 125 pupils for an academic year

Read Write Inc.

Read Write Inc. is a whole class intervention for 4-14-year olds. The intervention provides a structured and systematic approach to teaching literacy and is stated to be used by more than a quarter of the UK’s primary schools. It is designed to encourage children to become fluent readers, confident speakers and willing writers.

On request

Word Shark

Word shark is a game-based programme which helps children from ages 5-15 learn how to read and spell. Word Shark is used across a range of schools for over 20 years and has practice-based evidence.

£270 for 30 children

£338 for 100 children

£563 for 500 children

1st Class@number

1st Class@number is a programme which requires a specially trained teaching assistant to deliver up to 30 half- hour sessions to a group of up to four children, for 10-15 weeks. These sessions focus on developing children’s mathematical understanding through using stimulating and enjoyable games. Each session starts with an assessment, which enables the teaching assistant to measure progress and tailor sessions to the children’s needs.

The charge for 2019/20 for a new 1stClass@Number teaching assistant, with their Link Teacher, is reported to be in the region of £990

Numbers Count 2 (Year 7-8)

Numbers Count is an intensive intervention for learners in Years 1 to 8 who have substantial difficulties with mathematics. It is delivered by a specially trained teacher, who also supports the training of other staff in school. Number Count 1 can be used for learners in Years 1 to 3 and Numbers Count 2 can be used for learners in Years 4 to 9.

The charge for 2019/20 for a new Numbers Count teacher will be in the region of £2,200

Comparison and Analysis of Special Pupil Attainment (CASPA)

CASPA is tool to assist with the analysis and evaluation of attainment and progress of pupils with Special Educational Needs.

Annual licence fee £1,015.00 plus VAT (single school licence)

The Engagement Profile and Scale

The Engagement Profile and Scale is a classroom tool developed through SSATs research into effective teaching and learning for children with complex learning difficulties and disabilities. It allows focus on the child’s engagement as a learner and personalised learning pathways can be created. It prompts student-centred reflection on how to increase the learner’s engagement leading to deep learning

On request

Phonological Assessment Battery version two (PhAB2)

The Phonological Assessment Battery Version Two (PhAB2) offers a range of tests that help assess phonological awareness in children aged 5-11 years. This enables appropriate intervention to be provided to help improve underlying literacy skills. The PhAB2 has been newly standardised. The Phonological Assessment Battery (PhAB) is the assessment which is available for 11-14-year olds.

PhAB Record Forms (Pack of 10)

£24.99

PhAB Complete Set £166.53

PhAB2 Primary Record Forms (Pack of 10) £34.91

PhAB2 Primary Complete Set £188.37

The Sandwell Numeracy Test

The Sandwell Numeracy Test comprises of a revised edition for children aged 4-8 years and a version for older children aged 4-14 years. This standardised assessment enables teachers to assess a child’s mathematic ability, through exploring different strands of basic numeracy skills. It is administered on a one-to-one basis and can monitor the impact of teaching interventions and to identify targets for an individual education plan.

349.99 (Complete set of booklets and a one-year licence)

The Salford Sentence Reading Test

The Salford Sentence Reading Test (SSRT) is a simple and quick individual test of oral reading skills, which is based on carefully graded sentences. This can be used with children aged 5-13 years.

£30

Ravens Assessment

£330.49

York Assessment of Reading Comprehension

The York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension is a one to one diagnostic reading assessment that enables teachers and practitioners to assess child’s reading and comprehension throughout early years to the end of secondary school (4-16). There is a primary and secondary version of the assessment. There is also a free online Score Conversion Tool.

£520 (for the complete guide)

Bedrock Learning

Bedrock offers Bedrock Vocabulary, a nine-year digital literacy and vocabulary curriculum designed for students of all abilities in KS2, KS3 and KS4 (Years 3-11), and Bedrock GCSE Literature schemes, a growing range of units to support learning of specific texts and terms for KS4 students.

Pricing on request

Black Sheep

Black Sheep Resources for teachers and speech and language therapists working with children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and speech, language & communication needs (SLCN).

Individual resources from £5 Primary Bundle, £1796.00

Boardmaker

Boardmaker provides a wide range of symbol-based communication and visual supports which can be used around the environment, for displays and to create visual timetables.

Tiered pricing depending on number of installations/ packages

Inclusive Solutions offer a 1 year subscription for multiple users to Boardmaker Online for £585 Boardmaker V6 is available for £203 and allows for two installations

Circle of Friends

Circle of Friends is an approach to enhancing the inclusion, in a mainstream setting, of any pupil or young person who is experiencing difficulties in school because of disability, personal crisis or because of their challenging behaviour towards others. Circle of Friends works by mobilising the young person’s peers to provide support and engage in problem solving with the person in difficulty. This intervention is aimed at pupils aged 5 to 18 years.

Creating Circle of Friends Book £17.99

Contact Salford EPS, eps@salford.gov.uk, for further information on their training package and intervention delivery

Colourful Semantics

Colourful semantics is an approach aimed at helping children to develop their grammar, by linking the structure of a sentence (syntax) and its meaning (semantics).

Free download

Communication Trust

The Communication Trust offer a range of information and tools to enable practitioners to improve their practice, many of which are free to download. Their resources include the communication development pyramid. Staff can be trained in the pyramid and to understand how to adapt their communication cues so that they can ‘step up’ or ‘step down’ with a child as necessary.

Free

Elklan

Elklan have a range of courses to suit you whether you are an early years worker, teacher or assistant working with children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN). Their courses can enable you to develop the speech and language skills of ALL children but especially those with speech and language difficulties. Delivered by local tutors throughout the UK they give practical advice and strategies that are also suitable for children with English as an additional language and other special educational needs.

Elklan courses are run locally by the Salford Speech and Language

Therapy Service. Courses run regularly throughout the year and can also delivered for individual schools. Please discuss training with your Link SLT

Language Link (Secondary)

Secondary Language Link can be used to support children (11-14 years old) with mild to moderate language and communication needs and those new to English.

£250 - £1095 dependent on number of pupils

Lego Therapy

Lego-based therapy (LeGoff et al 2014) is an evidence-based approach that aims to develop social communication skills in autistic pupils, such as sharing, turn-taking, following rules, using names and problem-solving. In practice, pupils work in groups of three with each participant having a distinct role to build a Lego model collaboratively.

A comprehensive guide to setting up LEGO Therapy groups is available to promote social skills in children with autism spectrum disorders and related conditions through group LEGO building.

£10 - £30 for each Lego set Workbook: £14.99

Contact Salford EPS, eps@salford.gov.uk, for further information on their training package and intervention delivery

Looking and Thinking

Looking and Thinking workbooks to develop verbal reasoning skills. Photocopiable worksheets including illustrations and differentiated question prompts. To support children with delayed language skills or have English as an additional language.

£79 for books 1-5 in print

£95 for books 1-5 in PDF

Makaton

A language programme that uses symbols and signs alongside speech.

Products range from £7 - £40 Full collection available for £325

Narrative Intervention Program

Narrative Intervention Program is a program to improve the story telling skills of young adults/pupils in secondary school.

£95

PECS

PECS [Picture Exchange Communication System] - an alternative / augmentative communication system in which simple picture cards are used to communicate simple needs initially but work towards more complex sentence structures.

£65 for training manual Additional products £5 - £50

PODD (Pragmatic Organisation Dynamic Display)

PODD is a book or device that contains symbols and words to support communication between people with complex communication needs and their communication partners (family, friends or teaching staff).

Software bundles to create communication books start from £199

Proloquo2Go

Proloquo2Go. Children, teens and adults who can’t speak can use this Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app for iOS as a daily communication tool and to build language skills. From the first time someone opens the app, a few taps are all it takes to start talking to the world.

£250

Sliding in Technique

The ‘Sliding in Technique’ is a process that can be used to support a child to talk in front of new people, using a gradual process of the new person ‘sliding in’.

Free

Speech Link/ Language Link

A Speech Link subscription allows you to carry out as many assessments and interventions as you wish across an academic year. It gives you access to online training for as many support staff as you wish and unlimited access to the interactive listening games.

Total cost in start-up year - £330 Cost in follow on years - £180

Social Thinking

$60 plus P&P from US

Socially Speaking

Socially Speaking will help you to introduce and practise skills your pupils need to develop and maintain relationships and to lead independent lives outside the school context. It is a social skills programme that lasts a whole school year and is divided into three units: let’s communicate, let’s be friends, and let’s practise. It is suitable for 7–11 years and older pupils with SEN.

£20

Superflex® A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum

A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum provides educators, parents and therapists ways to teach students with social and communication difficulties (undiagnosed or diagnosed, such as Asperger’s syndrome, ADHD, high- functioning autism or similar). The three-part cognitive behavioural curriculum helps students develop further awareness of their own thinking and social behaviours and learn strategies to help them develop better self- regulation across a range of behaviours. The curriculum works best with primary school children as well as with less developmentally mature older students who respond to visual books.

£47.60

TALC 2

£45 plus P&P

TalkAbout

Talkabout is a complete programme for developing self-esteem, social and friendship skills.

£10 - £40 per book

Talk for Writing

Talk for Writing is a teaching framework that enables children to imitate the language they need for a particular topic orally, before reading and analysing it, and then writing their own version.

One day training with a school or small cluster (from 9am to 3.30pm) costs £1250 plus expenses for up to 50 delegates. If numbers exceed

50, then there is an additional fee of

£50 per person. A day’s consultancy from 9am to 3.30pm costs £850 plus expenses

Resources £5 - £30 per book

Talking Maths

Talking Maths is a 10-week intervention programme which targets speaking and listening skills in the context of mathematical language.

EY – KS3 bundle, £45

Talking Points Progress Checker (ICAN)

These Talking Point Progress Checkers have been written by speech and language therapists, based on typical developmental milestones from 6 months – 11 years. Their resources can help you identify signs of a child who is struggling to communicate, and ensure they get the support they need.

Free

TEACCH

The TEACCH approach aims to respond to the needs of autistic people using the best available approaches and methods known so far, for educating and teaching autonomy. It is not a single method and can be used alongside other approaches.

Free guidance on website

Topsy Page (Philosophy for Children)

A range of resources to support the development of effective child talk. Topsy also offers a Talk Audit where she will visit your school and analyse child and teacher talk, then provide recommendations.

£300 for a two-day training course Contact for school package prices

Widgit

Widgit provides a wide range of symbols which can be used to signpost around the classroom environment, for displays and to create visual timetables.

Widgit Essentials Bundle has tiered pricing depending on the number of installations. £289 – 1 installation

Up to £1449 for 30 installations

Word Aware

Word Aware is a structured whole school approach to promote the vocabulary development of all children.

One day training currently £1100 plus expenses

Zones of Regulation

Zones of Regulation is an intervention that supports the development of self-regulation and emotional control.

Free resources on website

Contact Salford EPS, eps@salford.gov.uk, for further information on their training package and intervention delivery

Blobble Write

Blobble Write is an app that help young children develop their handwriting skills and learn to write letters and numbers.

£2.99

Circle of Friends

Circle of Friends is an approach to enhancing the inclusion, in a mainstream setting, of any pupil or young person who is experiencing difficulties in school because of disability, personal crisis or because of their challenging behaviour towards others. Circle of Friends works by mobilising the young person’s peers to provide support and engage in problem solving with the person in difficulty. This intervention is aimed at pupils aged 5 to 18 years.

Creating Circle of Friends Book £17.99

Contact Salford EPS, eps@salford.gov.uk, for further information on their training package and intervention delivery

Clever Fingers

Clever Fingers are creative activities that have been specifically selected to support children to develop their fine motor skills.

£49-£225 plus P&P

Dexteria Jr.

Dexteria Jr is an app that supports the development of fine motor skills and handwriting readiness through hand and finger exercises. The activities are suitable for children aged 2-6 years.

£3.99

Dough Disco

Dough Disco This free and simple activity involves moulding play dough in time to music such as rolling, squeezing and flattening to develop fine motor skills.

Free

Funky Fingers and Finger Gym

Funky fingers and finger gym encourages the development of fine motor skills and pre-handwriting skills using play activities

Free

Hairy Letters

Hairy Letters is an app for children aged 4-6 years learn the letters of the alphabet and trace the letter shape using their fingers.

£2.99

Keyboarding Without Tears

Keyboarding Without Tears is a programme that teaches pre-keyboarding and keyboarding skills to children.

Resources range from $13.80-$26.34

Motor Skills United

Motor Skills United was developed by Stockport Children’s Occupational Therapy Service and consists of 70 large and small room activities to support the development of fine and gross motor skills.

£59.94 inc. VAT

Move ‘n’ sit or disc ‘o’ sit

Move ‘n’ sit/ disc ‘o’ sit wobble cushions help to improve sitting posture and attention and concentration.

£22.99

Physical Literacy

Physical Literacy is a way of describing the movement skills that a child develops. Ideas for activities and different skill areas are included.

Free

Ready Steady Write

Ready Steady Write is a free Occupational Therapy programme to support children to improve their ability to produce fluent, spontaneous and legible handwriting.

Free

Write Dance

Write Dance incorporates music and dance to develop the skills needed for handwriting.

Books range from £30.99-£31.74 Training packages range from £395 to £850

Write From the Start (Teodorescu Perceptuo-Motor Programme)

Write From the Start (Teodorescu Perceptuo-Motor Programme) contains over 400 graded activities to support perceptual and fine-motor development.

£34.99