Specialist Support Service

Description

Part of the Inclusive Curriculum and Teaching Team. Made up of:

• Access and Assistive Technology (AAT) – SEND Tech
• Vision Support Team & Habilitation
• Hearing Support Team
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Support

Each team provides specialist assessments, direct work, advice, and training for children and young people, families, and professionals.

Support is tailored to individual needs and covers transitions between educational stages and into adulthood.

Aim is to promote independence and focus on helping children and young people achieve their goals, not just addressing their challenges.

The teams put children, young people and their families at the heart of everything we do. We listen to children, young people, and their families’ choices, and design our interventions according to their priorities. We provide assessment, support, and advice based on highly specialist knowledge and extensive experience in our field. We facilitate individual’s independence, and promote inclusion of SEND in the children and young person’s home, educational setting and community. We strive to work in a multi-disciplinary way to work jointly with other teams and services: to aim for the same goals and support the children, young person and their family needs.

We aim to offer the best specialist advice for children and young people with SEND, and their families, to participate in life experiences. We promote independence through teaching skills, enabling access, and encourage inclusion culture in children and young people’s homes, educational settings and community.

Children and Young People specialist service information leaflets (under review)

• Children’s Occupational Therapy Service leaflet
• Children’s Hearing Support Team (HST) Early Years leaflet
• Children’s Hearing Support Team (HST) main leaflet
• Children’s Vision Support Team (VST) – Early Years
• Children’s Vision Support Team (VST) leaflet
• Children’s Habilitation Service leaflet

Type of provision

Targeted - Extra help for some people, usually after someone has made a referral

Contact information