In today’s climate, all teachers will encounter children with special needs on a daily basis despite limited training in this area. Most of these teachers are dedicated teachers with large classes and limited time to manage the challenges of these children, despite their best intentions.
Here are some important statistics:
In every class of 30 children:
- 2-4.5 children will have Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) (Miller, 2006)
- 1-5 children will have dyslexia (Shaywitz & Shaywitz, 2007)
- 1-2 children will have DCD/dyspraxia (Ralph, 2006)
- Up to 1 child may have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or Asperger’s Syndrome (DES, 2001)
We offer a wide range of services which include:
- Education and courses to suit the needs of individuals, organisations and schools.
- Assessment of each child’s strengths and weaknesses.
- Consultation for curriculum design and adaptation.
- Consultation for IEPs Treatment of each child’s specific needs (either in the school or in the clinic).
- Holiday Intensive Programmes to provide intensive input during the school holidays.
- Home/School Programmes to allow parents/teachers to contribute towards meeting the needs of each child.
ATLAS Training has years of experience running courses for teachers, resource teachers, and SNAs. We know that teachers, resource teachers and SNAs are the front-line staff for promoting education in children with special educational needs. We also know that there is a dearth of courses available and many are unaffordable and often inconvenient.
This is why ATLAS Training offers a series of practical, affordable courses to equip teachers with knowledge and skills that they can use on a daily basis in the classroom.
Teacher Workshops
Our comprehensive workshops are interactive, practical courses designed by a multi-disciplinary team to help teacher’s identify, explore and resolve behavioural and skills-based difficulties in the classroom to promote learning!
Designed by a team of professionals, including an occupational therapists, psychologists, speech and language therapists and play therapists these courses will give teachers the opportunity to discuss specific challenges and to try strategies for feedback.
Advantages of our courses:
- Interactive: Participants are given a chance to discuss real cases and these cases are used as the basis of our courses. This allows participants to take away new knowledge that is applicable to them and that will benefit the children they work with.
- Comprehensive: Our participants are offered the advice of a team of professionals giving a rounded approach to education and school participation.
- Flexible: As an independent organisation, we can be flexible about time and location to ensure that the maximum number of people can attend our courses.
- Value-For-Money: We know training is expensive, so we try to keep our costs down without compromising the value of the course. Participants from our courses will receive hand-outs, but we avoid “Fluff” that just adds costs.