Our Specialist Teaching team provides tailored support for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), as well as for the parents, carers, and educational settings who support them. Our practice is child-centred and our aim is to empower those around the child to create inclusive, effective learning environments.
The Specialist Teacher Team works collaboratively with other professionals involved in the child’s care and education to help each learner reach their full potential.
The members of our team are experienced educators holding a range of specialist qualifications and memberships, including:
- Level 7 postgraduate certifications
- Additional specialist training spanning a wide range of SEND
- Memberships with PATOSS and the Dyslexia Guild
This breadth of expertise ensures that the CEPP Specialist Teacher Team can match each child/setting with the most appropriately qualified professional and offer a wide range of support.
Along with systemic whole school/class support, we provide specialist assessments tailored to the individual needs of children and young people, helping to inform targeted strategies and interventions.
Services
Assessment and Planning
- Individual pupil assessments to identify strengths, difficulties and areas for targeted support
- Consultation and planning meetings with SEND coordinators, senior leaders and teaching staff to discuss individual students and whole school strategic development.
Specialist Teaching and Intervention
CEPP can support pupils with SEND through specialist teaching and the training, delivering and monitoring of evidence-based interventions:
- Segmentation Reading Strategy
- Bespoke Specialist Teaching
Other Support
- Mentoring / Coaching for new SENDCo’s, ECT and teaching staff
- Learning walks and staff consultation to identify and support areas of need
- Cognition and learning alternate provision support
- Advice on inclusive strategies and classroom adaptations
- Systemic work contributing to whole-school development
- Supporting classroom practice and teacher development
- Specialist projects supporting literacy development and inclusive curriculum approaches
- Advice, support and assessment for the Exam Access Arrangements process
Training
- Working Memory in the Classroom
- Adaptive Teaching and Inclusive Practice in the Classroom
- Metacognition and Metacognitive Study/Revision Skills
- Overview of Neurodiversity
- Understanding Specific Literacy Difficulties – Dyslexia
- Understanding Specific Numeracy Difficulties – Dyscalculia
- Understanding Developmental Coordination Difficulties – Dyspraxia
- Reading (fluency and comprehension)
- Developing Effective Teaching Assistants
