Collaborative Working: Education and Therapy

If you are an education or allied health professional who works with children and young people, this course may be of interest. It will equip you to support children or young people with additional support needs/special educational needs to access the curriculum and participate in school life through enhanced collaborative working.

On this course, you will:
• engage with contemporary inclusive learning issues, related legislative frameworks and policy, and relate these to your own practice context
• learn to critique evidence-based approaches and strategies to facilitate collaboration and inclusion for children with additional support needs
• have the opportunity to identify and advance practice in an area of innovative collaborative working within your workplace/service

In the context of this course, ‘pupils are defined as children or young people who are attending school (this can be within early years, primary or secondary school, in mainstream or special school settings).These pupils have additional support needs, which are currently or could be in the future, supported by the direct or indirect assistance of education and therapy staff (and/or others) working collaboratively. Additional support needs or special educational needs could
include challenges in the areas of:

• speech, language and communication
• learning difficulty (eg dyslexia)
• emotional/social/mental health issues
• physical disability
• complex needs

Critical evaluation of collaborative practice issues in relation to inclusive learning are central to the course. You will also have the opportunity to identify and advance practice in collaborative working and inclusive learning in schools through development of a proposal for a work-based project.

This course supports continuing professional development of education and health professionals working with children and young people, through gaining postgraduate credit.

• This PgCert will help you become a reflective, evidence-based practitioner, enhancing your abilities to make a real difference to the lives of pupils with additional needs.
• Your course tutors will be highly experienced practitioners and research-active academics.
• Our very active research in this field feeds directly into this course, helping to inform the teaching and keep you up to date.
• This course is flexible to fit in with your current career. You can complete it fully online or choose a blend of online and classroom attendance.

September 2022. Part-time students can also start in January 2023.

The University requires all students to demonstrate sufficient academic English language proficiency to undertake and derive full benefit from their chosen programme of study. This page acts a guide to help you meet the English language requirements for your chosen course.

Students who are not a national of a Majority English Speaking Country, as recognised by the UKVI, must meet the English language requirements of their intended programme of study.

Available. Register as an associate student to study single modules in areas of interest. Contact Emma Wood for more information.

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Supporting documents

As part of your application you will need to submit to us:

• A copy of your degree certificate
• A copy of your academic transcripts
• One or two letters of reference, depending on the course. If you finished your degree within the last three years, we ask for an academic reference. References must be signed, dated and written on letter headed paper or sent directly from a professional email account. You can find more information on how to get references here.

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Students whose first language is not English are required to provide us with proof of their English language ability. More information on how to do this can be found on our English language requirements page.

If you have not yet graduated and don’t have your degree certificate, this can be sent to us at a later date.

Interviews

Some of our courses require interviews as part of the selection process. If your course requires an interview it will be noted on the course page and if successfully chosen we will contact you by email with further instructions and information. Where applicants are unable to attend an interview on campus, it may be possible to arrange a telephone or skype interview.

Deadlines

A number of our most popular courses have set a closing deadline for applications. Where a deadline has been set this will be detailed on the individual course page.

Decisions

You should expect a decision on your application within four weeks of submitting a fully completed application with supporting documents. Where programmes have set closing dates with an equal consideration deadline, decisions will be notified within four weeks of the closing date.