Therapy booklet - Flipbook - Page 3
Therapy at St Elizabeth’s
Everyone living and learning at St Elizabeth's benefits from our therapy
support throughout the week. Therapy is incorporated throughout the
curriculum and daily routines, supporting our holistic approach to learning.
Therapeutic input runs concurrent with academic programmes and is integrated into the
day as part of individualised timetables and daily routines.
Therapy sessions are provided in a format that is best
suited to an individual’s needs and preferences. This
may be in 1:1 or group sessions, or work indirectly by
supporting teaching staff, care staff and families to
implement new initiatives. For sessions provided in our
therapy rooms, these have been carefully developed to
ensure it is an engaging and purposeful environment,
created for each individual attending.
We specialise in a range of therapeutic input including
Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC),
Rebound Therapy, Sensory Integration and
Hydrotherapy, to name a few. This allows us to provide
expertise in the use of specialist equipment such as eye
gaze systems, communication apps, specialised
sensory assessment and delivering extensive
physiotherapy-driven hydrotherapy for those attending
offsite sessions.
Therapy team:
Speech and Language
Therapists
Physiotherapists
Occupational Therapists
Behaviour Support
Practitioners
Psychotherapist
Therapy Assistants
As well as working closely with our onsite teams, we have close links with our local orthotics
department, our therapy colleagues at Princess Alexandra Hospital, our local communication
aid service and wheelchair services.
Our group activities help to deliver therapies in fun and engaging ways whilst combining
motor co-ordination, mobility, cognition and total communication approaches, helping to
develop social interactions alongside peers.
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