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Kickstart your career in SEN and speech & language therapy

The SEN and speech & language therapy course is designed to provide essential skills and experience for aspiring SEN teaching assistants and speech and language therapists. This comprehensive course is perfect for beginners and those already working in these fields, offering a significant competitive advantage. It equips learners with a solid foundation, ensuring they stand out in their careers by developing both basic and advanced skills.

Who is this course for?

This course is ideal for individuals interested in working as SEN teaching assistants or speech and language therapists. It suits those looking to improve their job prospects or accelerate their careers in these sectors. Anyone seeking in-depth knowledge of SEN, speech, and language therapy will benefit from this course. There are no academic entry requirements for this course, making it accessible to all students with a laptop, desktop, tablet, or smartphone and a good internet connection.

Course modules:

• Introduction to SEN teaching
• Communication interaction difficulties in children with SEN
• Cognition learning difficulties
• Social, behavioural, and emotional health difficulties
• Sensory and physical needs
• Legislation and principles
• Information, advice, and support
• Working together
• Early years providers
• EYFS, primary, and secondary education
• Further education
• Preparation for adulthood
• EHC assessments and plans
• Equality, diversity, and inclusion
• SEN children and young people in specific circumstances
• Disagreement resolutions
• An introduction to speech therapy
• Decoding speech science
• Characteristics of speech
• Language acquisition and literacy development
• Speech and communication disorders
• Child speech and language disorders
• SLTs' role in helping children with speech and language disorders
• Adult speech and language disorders
• Conclusion