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The Adult Resilience Program |
The Adult Resilience Programme has been developed specifically for 16-18+ year olds. Adult Resilience is a programme that aims to provide positive coping skills and build resilience for those who are age 16 and over. It is endorsed by the World Health Organisation. The structure of the FRIENDS Adult Resilience Programme is a 5 session course. Each session takes between 2-2.5 hour depending on the activities chosen by the facilitator. |
Contact the educational psychology service for more information |
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.b Mindfulness |
.b Curriculum is 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. |
Request on website |
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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 young people 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. |
See website |
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Bounce Forward |
Bounce Forward is the UK implementation of the Penn Resiliency Programme. They are a UK-based organisation who specialise in training schools to help young people 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 young people to challeg 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 young people aged 5 to 16 years. |
Costs vary depending on length and content of training and details can be found on the website. |
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The 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. |
Varies |
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Circle Of Friends |
Circle of Friends is an approach to enhancing the inclusion, in a mainstream setting, of any 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 young people aged 5 to 18 years. |
Creating Circle of Friends Book £17.99 |
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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 |
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ELKAN |
Elklan have a range of courses to suit you whether you are an early years worker, teacher or assistant working with young people with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN). Their courses will enable you to develop the speech and language skills of ALL young people 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 young people with egish 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. |
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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 |
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Emotion Coaching |
Emotion Coaching is a whole school approach, which focuses on using emotional validation strategies when a young person is upset, angry or distressed. Through empathetic eggement the young person’s emotional state is verbally acknowlegd and validated, promoting a sense of security and feeling ‘felt’. This activates changes in the young person’s neurological system and allows the young person to calm down, physiologically and psychologically. |
Contact Salford EPS, eps@salford.gov.uk, for further information on their training package and intervention delivery.
Lots of free resources available online. |
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Emotionally Friendly Settings |
Emotionally Friendly Settings 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
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Emotional Literacy Assessment |
Emotional Literacy - A standardised assessment measuring young people’s (aged 7 to 16 years) emotional literacy and providing ideas for intervention. The assessment is designed to discover where young people’s streghs 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: Young person, 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 young people, with specific activities to support each of the five subscales. |
£157.45 |
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FRIENDS Programme |
Friends is a cognitive behavioural intervention that develops young people’s 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 challegng situations. FRIENDS has been delivered to an estimated 800,000 children and adolescents worldwide and has been noted as one of the most robustly supported programmes for internalising disorders. The intervention is aimed at children and young people aged 4 - 16 years. |
Online training: £150 per participant / £1,500 group training (up to 50 individuals) |
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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 |
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Lego Therapy |
LEGO Therapy is an evidence-based approach that aims to develop social communication skills in autistic young people, such as sharing, turn-taking, following rules, using names and problem-solving. In practice, young people work in groups of three with each participant having a distinct role to build a Lego model collaboratively. |
£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. |
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Lions Quest Skills |
Social and Emotional Learning Resources - Lions Quest programs use a social and emotional learning curriculum to teach character education, drug and bullying prevention, and service-learning through downloadable lesson plans. |
A cost for the Skills for Action programme can be provided on request. |
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Mental Health First Aid Training |
Mental health training for staff will support their understanding of fostering positive peer relationships. |
£125 per person for half day online training. |
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Mood Gym |
moodgym is an online self-help program designed to help users prevent and manage symptoms of depression and anxiety. It is like an interactive, online self-help book which teaches skills based on cognitive behavioural therapy. Mood Gym is designed to be used by young people who would like to prevent mental health problems or manage problems which are troubling but not incapacitating. |
£23 for individual access for 12 months. Organisational subscriptions are also available. |
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Multidimensional Students Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS) |
Multidimensional Student's Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS) was designed to provide a multidimensional profile of young people’s life satisfaction judgments. It is suitable for children and young people aged between 8-18 years. |
Free for research use. |
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Pyramid Club |
Training is £200 per setting (for up to three staff) for a two half day training session and materials. |
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Pupils Attitudes to Self and School (PASS) |
PASS s an all-age attitudinal survey that provides a measurement of a young person’s attitudes towards themselves as learners and their attitudes towards school. The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete as young people read and comment on 50 statements. The PASS can be used with young people aged 4 - 18 years. |
Primary setup £150.00 per school Secondary setup £250.00 per school Individual survey £1.00 per young person Contact details: To buy PASS and discuss requirements, call 0330 123 5375 |
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Schools and Students Health Education Unit (SHEU) surveys |
SHEU: The Schools and Students Health Education Unit 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 young people, parents/carers and staff and governors. The questionnaires can be adapted for special educational needs or egish as an additional language status. Contact details: sheu@sheu.org.uk |
Prices vary. Please contact the organisation for further details |
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Seasons for Growth |
Seasons for Growth is an evidence-based programme that enables young people to understand and cope with the feelings that arise from change and loss. The programme, which is designed on four developmental levels, takes place within a small group learning setting and combines psychology and education with peer support to explore the nature of grief using a range of activities. |
To attend a scheduled 2 day training event = £295 which includes a manual. In some authorities the cost of training may be subsidised Please contact the trainer for further information. In-house training could be provided for a cluster of settings - up to 12 participants = £2,780, 13 – 20 participants = £4,020 - £4,300 Contact email: seasonsadmin@notredamecentre.org.uk |
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Smart Moves |
Smart Moves is a programme of evidence-based short sessions to give young people small learn-able skills (Smart Moves) that increase resilience. |
Free |
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Socially Speaking |
Socially Speaking will help you to introduce and practise skills young people 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 young people with SEN. |
£20 |
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Social Skills Improvement System (SSiS) |
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 young person. 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 |
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The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) |
SDQ for early detection of strengths and emotional problems in young people. 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 young person. |
Free |
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Think Good, Feel Good (2nd Edition) |
Workbook £32.99. The book contains many practical materials which can be photocopied or freely downloaded from the Wiley website Companion Guide £27.99 |
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Why Try? Resilience for Youth |
WhyTry.org program was created to provide simple, hands-on solutions for dropout prevention, violence prevention, truancy reduction, and increased academic success. The Resilience for Youth curriculum uses a multisensory learning approach to teach the skills of resilience. |
On request. |
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Zones of Regulation |
Zones of Regulation is an intervention that supports the development of self-regulation and emotional control. |
Free resources on website. |
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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. |
Minimum: £150 for five accounts and one Coach Maximum: £960 for sixty accounts and six coaches |
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Claro |
Claro Software provides a range of assistive technology for people experiencing difficulties with print and reading. |
Please see website for further details |
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Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP) Second Edition |
CTOPP-2 - Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing assesses phonological awareness, phonological memory and rapid naming. The CTOPP 2 was developed to aid in the identification of individuals from nursery through to college who may benefit from activities to enhance their phonological skills. |
Complete Kit (including examiner’s manual, examiner record booklets, Picture Book and 2 CDs) £437.39 (inc VAT) |
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Detailed Assessment of Speed of Handwriting (DASH) 17+ |
DASH - Detailed Assessment of Speed of Handwriting is an assessment of handwriting speed for young people over the age of 17. |
Dash 17+ Complete Kit: £146.45 (inc VAT) |
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DocsPlus |
DocsPlus - Further Education provides assistive software and technology. |
Please see website for further details |
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Dragon |
Please see website for further details |
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Empower 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 |
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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 |
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Immersive Reader |
Immersive Reader provides free assistive technology for reading |
Free |
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Inspiration |
Inspiration 11 software provides visual thinking tools for creating concept maps, mind maps, graphic organisers, diagrams and presentations. |
£49 (ex VAT) for a single licence Volume and site licencing potions are available on request |
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Ravens Assessment |
Raven’s is a cognitive assessment which measures an individual’s cognitive skills. The progressive matrices provide an assessment of non-verbal ability and the vocabulary scales provide scores in the verbal domain. This resource can be used with children aged 4-11years and 7-18 year. |
£330.49 |
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The Wide Range Achievement Test |
WRAT5 - Wide Range Achievement Test measures basic academic skills of reading, sentence comprehension, spelling and maths computation. It can be used as an initial evaluation, re-evaluation or progress measure for any student. |
Complete Kit £440.99 (inc VAT) |
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Blacksheep |
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 |
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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 |
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Circle Time |
Quality Circle Time helps pupils to develop their social, attention and listening skills. Additional adult support should be used to support group work (e.g. one adult leading, with another adult supporting the young person’s engagement). |
Various resources available online |
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The 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 young person as necessary. |
Free |
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Elklan |
Elklan have a range of courses to suit you whether you are an early years worker, teacher or assistant working with young person with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN). Their courses can enable you to develop the speech and language skills of ALL young person 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 young personren 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
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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
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Makaton |
A language programme that uses symbols and signs alongside speech. |
Products range from £7 - £40 Full collection available for £325 |
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Narrative Intervention Program |
Narrative Intervention Program is a program to improve the story telling skills of young adults/pupils in secondary school |
£95 |
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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. |
Prices available online |
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Proloquo2Go |
Proloquo2Go. Young personren, 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 |
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Sliding In |
The ‘Sliding in Technique’ is a process that can be used to support a young person to talk in front of new people, using a gradual process of the new person ‘sliding in’. |
Free |
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Social Thinking |
Social Thinking gives strategies to teach essential life skills such as socio-emotional learning and self-regulation across all environments. |
$60 plus P&P from US |
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TALC 2 |
The TALC 2 (Test of Abstract Language Comprehension) ELKLAN resource was designed to help speech and language therapists, education staff and the wider workforce to assess and develop the verbal reasoning skills of pupils aged 11 and over |
£45 |
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Talkabout (inc. Talkabout for Teens and Talkabout for Adults) |
Talkabout is a complete programme for developing self-esteem, social and friendship skills. |
£10 - £40 per book |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 – £289 |
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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 |
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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. |
Contact Salford EPS eps@salford.gov.uk for further information on their training package and intervention delivery. |
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Detailed Assessment of Speed of Handwriting 17+ |
DASH - Detailed Assessment of Speed of Handwriting is an assessment of handwriting speed for young people over the age of 17. |
Complete kit: £146.45 (inc VAT) |
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Kaz-Type |
Touch typing software with a multi-sensory typing programme designed for schools and further education to support typing skills |
See website for further details |
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Motor Skills United |
Motor Skills United was developed by Stockport Young person’s Occupational Therapy Service and consists of 70 large and small room activities to support the development of fine and gross motor skills. |
Prices online |
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Barclay’s Life Skills |
Young People hub is a free to use platform with a variety of interactive tools to support young people and their parents develop their skills for work. Register on the website for access to a range of tools such as:
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Free |
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Black Sheep |
BSP, speech & language resources Resources for teachers and speech and language therapists working with young people with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and speech, language & communication needs (SLCN). |
Talking About Community, social skills £28.35 Independence through Communication, social skills £80.00 |
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Finding Your Future Series |
National SEND Employment Forum Together the DFN Foundation and National SEND Employment Forum have created a series of videos to support young people with SEND to think about employment within the UK. |
Free |
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The Inclusion Web |
The Inclusion Web is a visual tool to support discussion and conversation across nine different life domains and the people and places that are important to young adults. |
Free |
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Learn Direct Employability Course |
Free Employability Skills online courses These employability courses support with the following:
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Free |