Testimonials

‘I am confident that I will be able to use the knowledge, understanding, awareness and insights gained in this course to generate my own hypotheses and propose my own ‘solutions' to issues of special and inclusive education and in treating children with SLCD.'  Read the full text:

Testimonial from Elena Revelas, Year 3 student

 

 

As a Speech and Language Therapist and Co-ordinator of an outer London Mainstream School Service, taking part in the MSc in JPP has enabled me to:

  • Write a research proposal for our department
  • Distribute numerous good quality research papers to individuals and set up a 'recent research papers' library for all to access
  • Buy some excellent, relevant books that I can point people towards for our departmental library
  • Develop the service to our local EBD school and provide the new therapist with adequate support in setting up.
  • Highlight the link with SEBD and communication difficulties to groups of therapists and school staff in order to re-evaluate our prioritisation system.
  • Come up with some really well received new ideas to take back to the team when reflecting on the train home
  • Shift the focus of our consultative mainstream team from one of 'expert/advisor' to one of 'facilitator/co-worker' with education staff
  • Organise an INSET day for our team with training from mainly LEA staff on school stuff (p-levels, differentiation of curriculum etc)
  • Set up a joint training day for teachers run by specialist teacher and therapists on meeting the needs of language impaired children in science and maths.
  • Support therapists to carry out practitioner based research
  • Encourage the introduction of 'Communication Passports'.

I also plan to:

  • Train therapists on how to search databases using Athens passwords provided by our PCT library
  • Set up a working group of interested SENCos, teachers and therapists to jointly develop our practice in schools
  • Consider re-evaluating the prioritization of looked after children.

Other unexpected benefits have included:

  • Being able to type much faster and generally broadened computer skills
  • Being able to spout evidenced based facts and figures at a moments notice to back up my views.
  • Increased status (or do I just feel more important!?)
  • Improved clinical supervision of students (more up to date knowledge)

In short, I don't known how I ever did my job properly without knowing what I know now. And I'm only ¾ of the way through!

 

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