CPD documents in the Document Library
CPD for Specialist Teachers has its own section in the NatSIP document library. You can find the CPD section here.
- Written by: Lindsey Rousseau
NatSIP, working with Manchester Sensory Support Service and Seashell Trust, are please to offer another presentation in the north of our Multi-Sensory Impairment Regional Centre of Expertise Course.
| Course: |
A Practical Approach to Supporting Access to learning for Children and Young People with Deafblindness/Multi-Sensory Impairment |
| Dates: |
Thursday 12 June 2025 |
| Times: |
09:30 - 15:30 each day (times tbc) |
| Venue: |
Manchester Sensory Support Service |
| Cost: |
Open delegate places: £600/delegate if mentoring is provided by the course steering group Delegates working in a school or service in Manchester £500/delegate if mentoring is provided by the course steering group |
| Available places: | 12 delegate places |
| Booking Contact: |
Michael Hinks |
| Booking: | Open now |
| For more information: | Contact: Caireen Sutherland, NatSIP Associate This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
This 5-days attendance over 5 weeks course, taught face-to-face, covers key areas of working with deafblind/MSI learners. The course is for professionals who currently provide direct support for deafblind/MSI children and young people.
Delegates will have the opportunity to identify and share good practice, whilst receiving support from a mentor, who could be identified locally by participants and agreed with course organisers or provided by the course team (at additional cost).
Available document(s)
- Written by: Lindsey Rousseau
RNIB’s free CPD sessions for the spring and summer term are now open for booking on RNIB’s website: Training for professionals supporting learners with VI. Sessions are held on Teams and topics include braille, wellbeing, complex needs, reformatting and making practical lessons inclusive. All education professionals are welcome.
- Written by: Lindsey Rousseau
University of Birmingham, Kent STLS Sensory Service and NatSIP are pleased to let you know that the MSI conference on 21st May is sold out and a waiting list has now been started. Thank you to the MSI sector for their support.
Speakers will include:
- Dr Paul Hart: MSI Assessment and Interaction
- Caireen Sutherland (NatSIP): Updates from the sector
- Dionne Nmai (Seashell) Sensory Integration and Processing
- David Turton: Habilitation Skills for those with MSI
- Kim Hodge (Specialist Learning Support Service, Suffolk LA) Meeting the needs of the MSI learner
Date: Wednesday 21st May for this one day face to face event at TouchBase Pears, Birmingham!
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.
Cost:
The cost is £80/delegate, reduced to £70/delegate for NatSIP-member organisations.
All places have now been allocated and a waiting list started:
If you would like to join the waiting list please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and copy in This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The online shop is now closed. If you find you are unable to use tickets that you have bought, please use the above contacts to let us know. Refunds will be available until 14th May 2025.
Further 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/