Useful Documents, Advice & Guidance

This webpage has been reorganised to list documents, advice and guidance that you may find useful. They have been categorised by the areas of healthy child development and to reflect the broad areas of need by the SEND Code of Practice (Communication and Interaction / Cognition and Learning / Social, Emotional and Mental Health / Sensory and/or Physical), plus one category for systems and processes. Please use the buttons below to navigate to the area of training that you are looking for.

This new approach is a work in progress and we are hoping to make it easier to locate specific training from a number of providers by listing it all on this webpage.

If you are looking for SEND training, you can find it on this page: SEND Workforce Development

For any queries or feedback about this new approach, please contact enquiries@learnsheffield.co.uk.

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Social, Emotional and Mental Health

Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Training

It is recommended you complete modules 1-5 of ‘Mind Your Words’ e-learning course before accessing the training modules below.

Module 1: The role of language skills in emotional regulation.
Module 2: Compromised attachment, trauma and the effect on communication.
Module 3: Supporting a child and young person’s communication and emotional availability through visual support.
Module 4: Social communication, demand avoidance and communication.

Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Strategies

Drawing alongside talking and comic strip conversation.
Strategies to help with demand avoidance at home and school.
Emotion modelling.
Making things predictable to support communication.
Social stories and power cards.
Running commentary and social coaching.
Supporting communication in emotionally dysregulated children or young people.
Talking about behaviour with a child or young person with communication difficulties.
Visually supporting communication for older children or young people.