Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)

Therapies new Post 16 Assessment Clinic proves to be a huge success in its first year

  The Academic Year 2022-23 saw the introduction of Cognus Therapies Post 16 Assessment Clinic. Emma Perridge (Occupational Therapist, OT) and Ashlea Stephens (Speech and Language Therapist, SaLT) noticed that they were getting a number of referrals into the Therapies service for the same young people. To avoid duplication for the young people and their […]

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Have your say on home to school assisted travel

Have your say on home to school assisted travel Sutton Council wants to hear from children and young people and their parents and carers who use its home to school travel service. In partnership with Cognus, the Council is reviewing its Home to School Assisted Travel Policy and has different options they want to hear […]

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Level 1 British Sign Language (BSL)

Do you want to communicate with Deaf people? Then come along to our BSL Level 1 Course! When:  Course commences on 18th September 2024 (Please note, this course has already commenced and is full. The next one will commence in September 2025, so if you’re interested, please email enquiries@cognus.org.uk to register your interest for 2025.) […]

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Cognus Educational Psychology Service host EBSA networking conference

Cognus Educational Psychology Service hosted an EBSA networking conference on Monday 18th September 2023 with staff from around 30 schools attending. With other professionals also in attendance there was space and opportunity for rich exchanges ! Alongside practical tasks to reflect on the approach settings are using to reduce and support EBSA pupils we had […]

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Smart Targets

Every PEP must contain three SMART targets that are reviewed at the next PEP.  There should always be a SMART target for English / literacy, maths and then another area eg attendance, homework, another subject.  Where a child is in KS1 or KS2 there must be a writing SMART target as we know that statistically […]

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Therapies Contact Point

Please see our ‘How we work with schools and settings‘ document to find out more about how we work in partnership with our educational settings. Please see our ‘How we work with families‘ document to find out more about how we work in partnership with our families. If you have concerns about your child or […]

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SaLTA is sharing a weekly Makaton sign to all school staff.

Maria Fitzgerald (Speech and Language Therapy Assistant, SaLTA) is sharing a weekly Makaton sign to all school staff. The Head Teacher at Foresters Primary Opportunity Base is supporting a universal approach through supporting The Speech and Language Therapies team to up skill all staff by modelling a Makaton sign in every assembly, each week. Posters […]

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