College & Supported Living Prospectus 20232024 - Flipbook - Page 22
Therapeutic Support
All young people living and learning at St Elizabeth's College & Supported
Living accommodation benefit from our therapy support throughout the week.
Therapy is incorporated throughout the curriculum and daily routines,
supporting our holistic approach to learning.
Therapeutic input runs concurrent with academic programmes and
are integrated into the day as part of individualised timetables and
daily routines.
Therapy sessions are provided in a format that is best suited to an
individual’s needs and preferences. This may be in 1:1 or group
sessions, or work indirectly by supporting teaching staff, care staff
and families to implement new initiatives. For sessions provided in
our therapy rooms, these have been carefully developed to ensure
it is an engaging and purposeful environment, created for each
individual attending.
We specialise in a range of therapeutic input including Alternative
and Augmentative Communication (AAC), Rebound Therapy,
Sensory Integration and Hydrotherapy, to name a few. This allows
us to provide expertise in the use of specialist equipment such as
eye gaze systems, communication apps, specialised sensory
assessment and delivering extensive physiotherapy driven
hydrotherapy for those attending offsite sessions.
As well as working closely with our onsite teams, we have close
links with our local orthotics department, our therapy colleagues at
Princess Alexandra Hospital, our local communication aid service
and wheelchair services.
Our group activities help to deliver therapies in fun and engaging
ways whilst combining motor co-ordination, mobility, cognition and
total communication approaches, helping to develop social
interactions alongside peers.
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Therapy team:
Speech and Language Therapists
Physiotherapists
Senior Occupational Therapist
Behaviour Support Practitioners
Therapy Assistants
Some of our exciting
therapy groups include:
Cheerleading Group - a dance group
which aims to develop gross motor skills,
coordination, body/spatial awareness
and shoulder/arm strength and stability.
Snack Chat Group – a food preparation
group, run jointly between Occupational
Therapy and Speech and Language
Therapy. The aim of this group is to
promote functional performance in food
preparation tasks, making choices,
language development and team
working.