View Anytime: How to assess the language and communication needs of young people with SEMH
About this course
This view anytime course is a self-study version of Melanie Cross’ virtual live course about assessing SEMH. It is accessed within the Course Beetle Academy and is divided into 12 topics, each followed by an optional reflection activity. When reflection tasks are completed, delegates can select to have the tasks and reflections saved as PDF downloads.
The course presents the learning and reference materials in mixed media format including audio narration, self-assessment and interactive click-throughs. Further reading links are embedded throughout the course and downloadable course handouts are available.
Course community
Enrolled delegates can communicate with other learners accessing the course via a dedicated community discussion page.
Terms of access
From the point of enrolment to the course, delegates have 3 months of access.
Course pricing
| Book and pay online | Organisational payment | Student / Returner | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Booking - Approx 5 hours learning time | £71.25 | £85.50 | £52.25 |
| Already attended How To Assess The Language And Communication Needs Of Young People With SEMH | £61.25 | £75.50 | £42.25 |
Please book your place here or alternatively, you can contact us if you are you would like to:
- Book four or more courses (we can offer you a discount)
- Make a block booking for a group
Course presenter
Melanie Cross
Speech and Language Therapist
Melanie Cross is a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) who worked with Looked After Children for many years. This has resulted in publications including Branagan A, Cross M & Parsons S (2020) ‘Language for Behaviour and Emotions’ http://thinkingtalking.co.uk/lfbe/.
Melanie has also worked with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) to help develop their clinical guidelines on Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) for SLTs. She has also worked on the RCSLTs learning journey for practitioners working with children and young people who experience SEMH & Speech Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) https://www.rcslt.org/learning/mind-your-words/.
Melanie Cross is also a freelance clinical supervisor, trainer, consultant and Video Interaction Guider and supervisor.
Course topics
During this course, you will cover:
- Why assess communication skills?
- What are the possible impacts of assessment?
- When should we assess?
- How can we engage young people in assessment?
- Who should we assess?
- Is screening viable?
- What should we assess?
- Types of assessment. What can we use?
- Narrative assessment
- Diagnosis, neurodiversity and neurodivergence
- Bringing it all together
- What is next?
Who this course is suitable for
Booking information
This course is a self-study, on-demand course. To book your place, please click here.
During the booking process, you can select to reserve a place instead (while you confirm you can attend or to organise payment through your employer for example). We can hold your place for up to four weeks, if we have not heard from you after this time, we may need to cancel your reservation so other people can attend the training.
Course Beetle is an approved supplier for NHS Trusts, Local Authorities and Schools.
As a guide, we estimate this course will take 5 hours to complete. You will have access to the course on our system for 3 months.
Course testimonials
I liked the self-study format; it was good to have time to reflect between sections and to be able to go back to sections. The downloads and links will be useful and will provide further reading and ideas to develop practice.
I enjoyed this course; it has made me reflect on my practice and look at making changes to how I work with the YP on my caseload and how I disseminate information to those who support them.
It was nice to have the course self-paced. I was able to work on it bit by bit and refer back to information when needed. The resources and links to research papers were helpful.
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