SEND Support

Our Specialist Inclusion Teachers will work with you to complete an audit of your current provision. This covers all areas including:

• Your school’s current policy
• SEND information report
• Teaching and learning
• Attainment and achievement
• Attendance and pastoral care
• Interventions
• Any additional resources that are required

Throughout the process, we work alongside parents, pupils and agencies, Governors role and Leadership. On completion of the audit you will receive a RAG rated action plan.

Our team are experienced in training schools in a range of language, literacy and maths interventions.

This includes:

• Fischer Family Trust wave 3 intervention
• Boosting Reading at primary and secondary
• Inference
• Five minute box
• Talking Maths

We can offer Speech and Language Therapy from a Speech and Language Therapist. The advantage of a therapist is their ability to offer practical in school advice that has been tried and tested as a teacher in mainstream and special schools.

Speech and Language Therapy Support includes;

• Assessment, report and advice for individual pupils (this may be used to support a request for Statutory assessment)

• Training staff to carry out language screening and once completed, using the results to best direct children to the correct interventions and support
• Develop language-friendly classrooms and schools
• Training in speech and language

ELKLAN provides a range of courses, giving information and strategies to use in and out of the classroom to develop the communication skills of all children but especially those with speech, language and communication needs.

Our training courses will develop your knowledge and increase your range of teaching approaches. Whether you wish to book places on a course or organise in-school inset or twilight sessions, we offer a comprehensive range of SEND related training. Training can be delivered to individual schools or across a cluster. Bespoke training is also available.

Our range of training includes;

• ASD
• EAL + SEND
• Effective use of additional adults
• Emotional health and wellbeing awareness training
• Engaging parents and carers
• Engaging pupils in decision making

• Inference
• Managing behaviour
• SEND in the classroom
• Supporting children with language difficulties
• The Equality Act + Equality Duty
• The SEND Code of Practice
• Using visuals in the classroom to support all learners
• Writing personalised plans

Our specialist team will ensure that your systems adhere to all areas of The Code of Practice 2015.

Through learning walks, observations and data, our Specialist teachers will identify groups of and/or individual pupils who may have SEND. Auditing staff needs regarding CPD to ensure that there is Quality First teaching for all pupils.

Our staff will provide you with all the advice and support you need to get the paperwork right.

Understanding of “what works” regarding intervention

We will provide your school with strategic advice and support, the ability to audit the need as well as any resources and/or training needs that are required to plan and deliver the appropriate support for your SEND pupils.

Specialist staff will also implement the use of monitoring and evaluation tools to ensure the provision is working for your pupils and cost effective for the school.

Our Specialist Inclusion Teachers have a wealth a knowledge in working with individuals and groups of pupils, carrying out observations and specialist assessments which ultimately leads to reports and advice for your school. We can deliver a wide range of interventions addressing individual learning needs.

We offer strategic advice to your senior leadership team to best fit the use of resources in order to support SEND effectively in school. This support can include:

• Teaching approaches
• Differentiation
• Personalised planning in the classroom

Our specialists want to ensure that you feel supported throughout the process. Therefore, we have regular drop-in sessions for teachers and school staff giving them the opportunity to freely ask questions and receive advice about supporting pupils with SEND.

We offer personal meetings designed to support parents in sharing their expert information on their child, and plan with school the next steps and more suitable support strategies.