Educational Psychology

Earlier this year Sefton and their partners in Health were successful in securing a bid from Health Education England to compile a package of awareness raising activities for service users with a focus upon Neurodiversity in the Early Years. As part of this work the Sefton Educational Psychology Team have developed a series of online training via webinars. The areas covered are;

Neurodiversity – an introduction

Attention in young children

Social Communication

Sensory Processing

Autism – an introduction.

Each session lasts approximately one hour. They are freely available to all staff in both maintained and Private and Voluntary settings. They are aimed in the first instance at staff with limited experience in this area but should prove useful for all who wish to develop their knowledge of Neurodiversity. Once you have accessed a session -please would you be kind enough to complete the attached evaluation. 

You should access them via Melearning

Here’s the link: https://seftonclc.melearning.university/course_centre

If you already have access details (username and password) to MeLearning, you can log in here, otherwise  click on the Self-register button.

You may wish to  check with training.services@sefton.gov.uk to see if you are already registered

1 An Introduction to Neurodiversity

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/5081d630-6423-4c0c-87ec-eae873253b44/review

2 Attention in Young Children

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/d1c3ddff-ec9d-4522-9645-b88ca8f6e3bc/review

3 Social Communication and Sensory Integration

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/630618f3-376a-4275-b887-448cd178bb76/review

4 Sensory Processing in the Early Years - added to Review 360

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/f3126a6b-e43b-41cf-a598-f34599299dbc/review

5 Introduction to Autism in the Early Years

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/8c9f2f4d-487a-454a-ad15-42963b4da5d6/review

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Advice Sheets

The Return to School

Key Points Transition

Transition for Vulnerable Groups

Difficult Conversations

Trauma

Separation Anxiety

Managing Emotions

Resilience

Teacher Wellbeing

Information Sheets

Anxiety

Trauma

Attention Difficulties

Attachment Principles

Sleep

Social Difficulties

Maths

Literacy

The educational psychology team is able to tailor the service provided to the specific needs of the organisation in order to optimise educational outcomes for individuals and groups of children and young people. The service can also help staff work towards the achievement of developmental priorities of schools and which might include for example work around literacy difficulties across a particular year group or pastoral care at a whole school level.

Educational psychologists work within integrated teams and so are well placed to provide a coordinated response to the needs of children, young people and their families alongside schools and other local authority services. Educational psychologists are used to working in collaboration with health based professionals, such as speech and language therapists and child and adolescent mental health service practitioners, as well as other organisations including the voluntary sector.

Educational psychologists working within the team have different professional backgrounds and interests and so the service is able to offer a wide range of educational assessments, therapeutic interventions and training packages that can be adapted to meet the needs of the individual or organisation.

The service maintains strong links with universities as it provides practice placements for trainees and has an ongoing commitment to the professional development of qualified educational psychologists. Positioned at the interface between research and practice the service is readily able to support the implementation of new research and other developments, including legislative changes, into the everyday work in schools.

• Consultation
• Assessment
• Therapeutic intervention
• Training
• Bespoke project work to support the developmental priorities of the school, focusing upon specific groups of children and young people or adults

Educational Psychologists and Educational Psychologists in Doctoral Training.

Every school has a named school Educational Psychologist with a small amount of time to deliver the local authority’s statutory duties.  Most schools then commission additional time from the psychologist to carry out further work within the school, depending upon the needs of the school.

For more information you can contact Sefton SEN and Inclusion Service on 0151 934 2347 or by emailing SENIS: SENIS@sefton.gov.uk

You can find the Sefton SEN and Inclusion Service at:

Sefton SEN and Inclusion Service

4^th Floor, Magdalen House

30 Trinity Road

Bootle

L20 3NJ