Speech and Language Support Service

The Speech and Language Support Service is a team of specialist teachers, nursery nurses and teaching assistants who provide educational support to students with diagnosed speech and language disorders in a number of mainstream schools across the city.

Students may have problems such as:

receptive or expressive language difficulties
verbal dyspraxia
speech difficulties
semantic pragmatic language disorder
social communication difficulties.

What do we do?

There is a Primary Speech and Language Unit where pupils attend for up to four days a week. They are taught all of the National Curriculum subjects and a special curriculum to meet their special needs. They spend at least one day a week in their local school. Other Primary and all Secondary pupils are supported in mainstream schools. They receive in-class support and specialist teaching in their areas of difficulty. Most students receive regular speech and language therapy in their schools.

How do we do it?

The Speech and Language Support Service works in partnership with parents, schools and the local education authority to meet the requirements of the Students’ Statements of Special Educational need.

Pupils are enabled to:

achieve their potential in spite of their specific difficulties
develop their linguistic and social communication skills
access the National Curriculum and statutory assessments.

What other specialist help is available?

The Education Service operates eleven other SEN and Inclusion Support Services. These services all work with schools and parents/carers to promote the educational, personal, social and emotional development of children and young people.

The other services are:

Autism Support Service (for children/young people with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder)
Access and Technology Service (for children/young people with special educational needs who require technological support)
Education Access Service (for looked after children)
Educational Psychology Service
Education Welfare Service
Hospital Education Service
Learning and Behaviour Support Service (Primary)
Learning and Behaviour Support Service (Secondary)
Parent Partnership Service (for parents and carers of children with special educational needs).
Pre-School Education Support Service
Sensory Support Service (for Hearing and Vision)

Contact details

Speech and Language Support Service
Primary Unit and Administration Base
Manor Park School
Ulverscroft Road
Cheylesmore
Coventry
CV3 5EZ
Tel: 024 7650 2927
Fax: 024 7650 5402

Primary Inclusion Base:
Whitmore Park School

Secondary Inclusion Bases:
Barrs Hill School
President Kennedy School
Westwood School

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Coventry City Council