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ELKLAN Training 

 

ELKLAN 10 week training for staff working with 0 - 3 Years, Under 5’s and School age children. These courses have been devised by two Speech and Language Therapists, Henrietta McLaughlin and Liz Elks and bear the trade mark “Elklan” Training.


We offer this  high quality, accredited training courses for people working with children in early years settings, primary schools and high schools. The courses involve 10 weekly, 2 ½ hour teaching sessions with practical activities to carry out with  the  children where they work.  People taking part in a course will be asked to complete a portfolio, for which they’ll receive a qualification accredited through the Open College Learning Network.

People attending these courses have found them very helpful and feel they’ve gained the knowledge and confidence they need  to support the children they work with who have speech, language and communication needs. 
 

 

Don’t take our word for it

“I feel the course has developed my own good teaching practice in the classroom – the knowledge of language development and difficulties that may occur allows me to adapt language used and presentation of lessons accordingly for all children, not just those with specific programmes.”
Teacher/SENCo, Classroom course.

“I feel confident that I can now differentiate activities to make it easier or harder for individual children. With my new found confidence, I feel I’ll be able to work more effectively with them and help them develop the skills they need to learn effectively.”
TA, Classroom course.

“I can offer children earlier support than I could previously and also cut down on waiting periods between initial identification of speech and language concerns and referral to the Speech and Language Department.”
Teacher, Under 5’s course.

“It’s made me more aware of the complexities of communication, speech and language - in terms of teaching and working with young people with learning, behaviour and emotional difficulties.”
Teacher, 11 -16’s course.

For further information contact salttraining@nca.nhs.uk

 

The courses we offer are:

 
  • Speech and Language Support for Under 5’s
  • Speech and Language Support for 5 - 11's
  • Speech and Language Support for 11 –16’s
  • Communication Friendly Settings

 

NEWS/ EVENTS

Examples of What We Offer

Early Years

Our Early Years team follow the Greater Manchester Early Years Delivery Model (EYDM). They work in close partnership with health, local authority and social care colleagues to support early identification of speech, language and communication needs to ensure the right support at the right time for children, parents/ carers and settings.

School and Post 16

We work within with settings to identify and support communication needs. This could through training staff, modelling and coaching, whole class/ small group input and 1:1 interventions. There is a wide virtual training offer available for Salford schools. Please speak to the school/ college Link Speech and Language Therapist if you have any questions. 

 

 Enhanced Services

The Enhanced Speech and Language Therapy (SALT) Service allows settings to buy-in additional support. This is bespoke to each setting and might involve universal, targeted and specialist input and training. For further information, please contact  salttraining@nca.nhs.uk

 

I would also like to say that I am very impressed with the work Speech and Language Therapist is doing in school as well as the professional way she deals with my parents and her helpful advise to my staff. I believe credit where credit is due.

School staff

I have found working with the speech therapist very beneficial. She helps me to set achievable goals for the children by coming into the nursery and interacting with the children and getting to know them. She talks to us on a regular basis and updates us on what targets she would like the children to achieve next. She teaches us new strategies to use with the children which we find really useful, we try to incorporate this into everyday activities. Parent’s often comment on how much they appreciate the advice from our therapist. They also comment on how much progress their children have made since visiting her. We don’t know what we would do without her!

Anneka Williamson, Children’s Centre Practitioner

My child absolutely LOVES coming to see you, you are so good with him. We are extremely grateful for all of your care and support. He is counting down the days until we can come again.

Parent

I just wanted to send a quick email to say thank you for the training you delivered for us this afternoon, it was so useful and informative. It was great to have further training that was bespoke to Early Years and built on what we had done in the whole school training. We're excited to start implementing it for our children.

Early Years Teacher

EPs and SALT frequently work together during Multi agency meetings to clarify individual concerns and strengths. We develop joint objectives, that are regularly reviewed and evaluated to improve outcomes for children and young people. Parents and teachers comment that this work is effective and helps to increase their understanding and knowledge. Jointly we increase schools capacity, through conversations and training, to meet the needs of their pupils.

Joanne Snee- Educational Psychologist

I am new to the role and I have found all members of the team extremely helpful and have gone out of their way to support me.

School SENCo

This is great and I am so appreciative of your support. We have nothing but fantastic things to say about the Salford SALT team and the support that you have given to both of our children.

Parent