Speech and Language Therapy - The SRP receives regular input from a Highly Specialised Speech and Language Therapist. Students are provided with individual targets and programmes of study. The SRP liaises closely with the Speech and Language Therapist and support is available to all SRP students from a specialist SRP LSA during homework club.
Precision Teaching – The SRP employs this method of assessment and monitoring as a tool to help deaf students learn new vocabulary.
Reading Schemes – The SRP recognises that for many deaf students comprehension of text, particularly inference and deduction are a problem. Specially selected Reading Schemes are used in order to help students overcome this. These are read and discussed in one to one sessions with SRP staff.
Talkboxes – The SRP has a variety of resources prepared each morning to stimulate conversation with and amongst deaf students. The primary aim of these sessions is to increase the ability of students to communicate effectively with others.
Games Club – The SRP runs a games club every Friday lunch time, the aim of this is to help students develop friendship groups and improve their social skills.
Trips – The SRP runs a number of trips throughout the year. These are generally aimed at improving one or more of the following for deaf students:
World knowledge
Social skills
Vocabulary
Grammar
Reverse integration - The Teachers of the Deaf teach some small groups within the base. These groups comprise of a mixture of deaf and hearing students who benefit from having a particular part of the curriculum delivered to them in a different format to that of the mainstream class.
One to one teaching – The SRP sometimes provides students with individual tuition sessions. These sessions enable students to progress at a pace appropriate to them and to freely ask as many questions as they need to in order to understand the subject matter being taught.
NDCS Healthy Minds Training Programme - Teachers of the Deaf have attended specialist training in order to deliver this programme which has been devised by the NDCS to enable small groups of deaf young people to explore ways of building and maintaining good emotional health and well being.
Shape Coding - Staff within the SRP work closely with the specialist Speech and Language Therapist to use this visual representation of language to support students in developing the correct formation of both verbal and written sentences.
