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- Written by: Jenny Fletcher
Ty Gwyn School, Cardiff are hosting a presentation of the 5-day Intervenor Course.
| Course: |
5-Day Intervenor Course |
| Presenter: | Jenny Fletcher |
| Dates: |
Monday 18 - Friday 22 November 2024 |
| Times: | 09:30 - 15:30 each day |
| Venue: |
Granta School |
| Cost: | £475/participant + £365/participant if accreditation from the University of Northampton is required |
| Booking Contact: |
Robert Monteith |
| Booking: | Open now |
This 5-day course is specifically designed for teaching assistants, healthcare workers, learning support workers, social care workers and those employed to work on a 1:1 basis with a child or young person who is congenitally multi-sensory impaired/deafblind, or has a single sensory impairment with additional complex needs.
Following successful completion of the course, delegates will receive a certificate of attendance, and are trained intervenors.
The University of Northampton, in collaboration with NatSIP, offers accreditation at level 4 (20 CATS points) at an additional cost.
Course content includes:
- Implications of MSI
- Vision
- Hearing
- Communication
- Touch Interaction
- Sighted guide and orientation skills
- Assessment
- Making resources
- The role of the intervenor
- The learning environment
- Written by: Lindsey Rousseau
Chailey Heritage Foundation in East Sussex is hosting a presentation of the 5-day Intervenor Course.
| Course: |
5-Day Intervenor Course |
| Presenter: | Jenny Fletcher |
| Dates: |
2nd to 6th December 2024 |
| Times: | 09:30 - 15:30 each day |
| Venue: |
Chailey Heritage Foundation Haywards Heath Road, North Chailey, East Sussex BN8 4EF |
| Cost: | £395/participant + £365/participant if accreditation from the University of Northampton is required |
| Booking Contact: |
Tom Dutson 01825 724444 | Ext 709 Mobile 07909 234190 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Booking: | Open now |
This 5-day course is specifically designed for teaching assistants, healthcare workers, learning support workers, social care workers and those employed to work on a 1:1 basis with a child or young person who is congenitally multi-sensory impaired/deafblind, or has a single sensory impairment with additional complex needs.
Following successful completion of the course, delegates will receive a certificate of attendance, and are trained intervenors.
The University of Northampton, in collaboration with NatSIP, offers accreditation at level 4 (20 CATS points) at an additional cost.
Course content includes:
- Implications of MSI
- Vision
- Hearing
- Touch Interaction
- Sighted guide and orientation skills
- Assessment
- Making resources
- The role of the intervenor
- The learning environment
- Written by: Lindsey Rousseau
University of Birmingham, Kent STLS Sensory Service and NatSIP are delighted to let you know about a MSI conference and networking opportunity coming up in 2025
With keynote speakers in the morning, sector stallholders over lunch, and workshops
In the afternoon, we will be presenting and discussing some of the most pertinent areas in multi-sensory impairment provision and support.
Speakers will include:
- Dr Paul Hart: MSI Assessment and Interaction
- Caireen Sutherland (NatSIP): Updates from the sector
Save the Date: Wednesday 21st May for this one day face to face event at TouchBase Pears, Birmingham!
Cost:
If you book before 31 January 2025, the cost is £65/delegate, reduced to £50/delegate for NatSIP-member organisations.
Book after this date, the cost is £80/delegate, reduced to £70/delegate for NatSIP-member organisations.
To book your place:
Book via the University of Birmingham’s online shop at: https://shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/college-of-social-sciences/school-of-education or via Invoice and purchase order. Please send a purchase order to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The purchase order needs to specify number of tickets, and whether you’re claiming your NatSIP discount. We will then issue you with an invoice for tickets.
Queries? Contact Hester Richardson
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Written by: Lindsey Rousseau
NatSIP is working with OnLineTraining (OLT) and Heads of Sensory Support Services (HoSS) to develop a training and coaching programme for schools which builds on the existing OLT awareness training modules for sensory impairment. https://www.oltinternational.net/
We are exploring new ways to work together to enhance the impact, enjoyment, and sustainability of these SI courses and to involve more SI services in the delivery of them, leading to extending the relationship and reach into schools and settings through providing supervision and coaching.
A NatSIP Online Twilight Event has been scheduled for Thursday 14 November 2024, 15:00 - 16:30 for HoSS colleagues to come together to explore the new models being proposed and to have a brief introduction to the coaching model.
The event will be free of charge to NatSIP member organisations
For more details, please see here.
- Written by: Jane Sharp
RNIB is pleased to announce that their CPD sessions for education professionals for the summer term 2024 are now open for booking:
Training for professionals supporting learners with VI | RNIB
- Written by: Lindsey Rousseau
Seashell Trust has been awarded a contract by the DfE to offer a PG Diploma Mandatory Qualification in MSI. The course will start in September 2024 and will be delivered with a University providing academic rigour as well as offering an opportunity to make use of the state of the art specialist campus at Seashell.
This offers teachers wishing to specialise in MSI a choice of training course and establishment again. This ensures children with MSI have access to the specialists they need and enhances availability of course providers for the sensory impairment sector.
The Seashell Trust MQ course will be delivered through distance learning and also offer ample opportunity to visit the Seashell site and benefit from the specialist facilities there.
Expressions of interest and applications are open now and you can find out more here: https://www.seashelltrust.org.uk/mqmsi-pgdip/. You will find that at the bottom of the webpage there is a link to book onto one of the monthly "Q&A - find out more about the course" online sessions.
- Written by: Lindsey Rousseau
The charity, Auditory Verbal UK (AVUK) is a provider of training for speech and language therapists, audiologists and teachers of the deaf working in early intervention. As well as introductory courses, their 6-month online Foundation course ‘Working through audition’ is designed to focus primarily on equipping professionals with the core skills needed to develop auditory practice when working with preschool children and young babies and their families.
AVUK can provide training bursaries for TODs and SALTs working in the UK as well as tailored in-service training. For more information please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or contact Noel Kenely @This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Written by: Teresa Quail
The BATOD Audiology Refreshers publication is now live on the BATOD website. The publication is free to access and open to any professional linked to deaf education to explore https://www.batod.org.uk/resources-category/audiology-refreshers/