Specialist Learning Courses
From vocational courses and qualifications in care work, Access to Higher Education, British Sign Language (BSL) and teacher training to specialist courses in speech therapy and courses for students with learning difficulties.
- Effective counselling skills for speech and language therapistsCourse start date: Wed 18 Nov 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Louise Hillyer, Anita McKiernan, Amy StewartDesigned for SLTs working with any client group, this interactive workshop will help you develop practical counselling skills. Topics include developing the therapeutic relationship, boundaries, ways of responding, paraphrasing, reflecting, questioning, immediacy, self disclosure and loss.Full fee £549.00 Senior fee £549.00 Concession £549.00 - Speaking confidently in workplace settings for people who stammerCourse start date: Tue 2 Jun 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vivien Grant-JonesThis Stage 2 online course provides a supportive and structured space for adults who stammer to practise communication skills related to employment and everyday working life. The focus is on confidence, participation and self-expression rather than fluency.
Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £90.00 Concession £26.00 - Speech and language therapy as a career
Course start date: Wed 10 Jun 2026 (and 3 other dates)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vivien Grant-JonesInterested in becoming a speech and language therapist? This one-day workshop covers training courses in the UK, what the job involves, career structure, pay and hints for a successful interview, plus the opportunity to meet clients.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £91.00 - Advancing your practice for speech and language therapists Course start date: Mon 20 Jul 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vivien Grant-JonesThis course is for speech and language therapists working with adults or young people who stammer wishing to develop their practice. It will provide opportunity to update your knowledge and learn from peers.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £139.00 - Access to HE diploma: humanities and social science (evenings)Course start date: Tue 15 Sep 2026
Location on this date: Online
The Access to Higher Education Diploma for Humanities and Social Science is a qualification for anyone who has left school without GCSEs or A-levels and wishes to study at university. It is a highly intensive, fast-track route to higher education, where you will complete the equivalent of 3 A-Levels in one year, and requires attendance ONLINE via ZOOM two nights per week (on Tuesdays & Thursdays) from 6-9.15pm, as well as online tutorials every two to three weeks and substantial private study. It starts on 15 September 2026. These dates and times are non-negotiable, and you are required to attend every session.
Applications for the September 2026 start are open. Please click Start Assessment on the course page (It will take a few hours to complete).
The course fee is £3022.00. If you are unable to pay the course fee upfront, you can choose to apply for an Advanced Learning Loan from the Student Loans Company (SLC) to help cover the cost. The Advanced Learner loan available for this course is £3022.00. . The Loan is written off on completion of a Higher Education degree course. For more information, please call Access to HE Diploma (Humanities) on 020 4582 0414. You can find more information about the Advanced Learner Loan here www.citylit.ac.uk/advanced-learner-loansFull fee £3,022.00 Senior fee £3,022.00 Concession £3,022.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: beginners module 1Course start date: Tue 22 Sep 2026 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Christine HathwayThis class is suitable for total beginners who have little or no experience of lipreading. You will learn how to recognise some sounds that are visible on the lips and how to use other tactics to support lipreading and how to manage hearing loss.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £116.00 Concession £90.00 - Beginners BSL Course start date: Wed 6 May 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Carolina Delgado EspejoAre you interested in learning BSL? Join us to learn some basic vocabulary and grammar and decide if you want to progress to the level 1 qualification.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: advancedCourse start date: Tue 22 Sep 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Adam GurneyDevelop your lipreading skills and strategies for face-to-face communication and keep up-to-date with relevant equipment and services. This course is suitable if you have completed a lipreading class at improvers' level.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £419.00 Concession £210.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: beginners module 2 Course start date: Tue 12 Jan 2027 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
This class is suitable for if you have completed module 1 or have completed the one term introduction to lipreading class or have attended a lipreading class at any level in the past, but want to go back to basics. You will develop your lipreading and fingerspelling skills and build your confidence.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £116.00 Concession £90.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: improvers module 1Course start date: Wed 23 Sep 2026 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Judi PettmanDevelop your lipreading skills and strategies for face-to-face communication and keep up-to-date with relevant equipment and services. This course is suitable if you have a basic understanding of lipreading consonant and vowel theory, can finger spell and have also either completed beginners modules 1, 2 and 3 or have completed a year’s lipreading classes in the past and want to re-join a course.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £90.00 Concession £70.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: beginners module 3Course start date: Tue 4 May 2027 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
This class is suitable for if you have completed beginners modules 1 and 2 or have completed a lipreading class in the past and already have a basic understanding of lipreading theory and fingerspelling. You will develop your lipreading and fingerspelling skills and build your confidence.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £116.00 Concession £90.00 - Deaf history: one-day courseCourse start date: Sat 26 Sep 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Peter BrownA brief introduction to the history of Deaf people in Britain and the development of British Sign Language. This fascinating course is taught in BSL, with a BSL-English interpreter available.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Stage 1 stammering therapyCourse start date: Tue 3 Feb 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vivien Grant-JonesLearn strategies to help you speak more easily. You'll also work on becoming less sensitive about stammering, reducing avoidance strategies and developing self confidence. Designed specifically for people who stammer /stutter.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £181.00 Concession £52.00 - Interiorised stammering therapyCourse start date: Wed 7 Oct 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Carolyn CheasmanFull fee £279.00 Senior fee £195.00 Concession £56.00 - Stammering - affirming shared world buildingCourse start date: Fri 9 Oct 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Samantha SimpsonHistorically, stammering has been understood as a defect that needs to be fixed. Over the past two decades, therapists and people who stammer have looked beyond such aims and instead developed approaches to therapy that affirm stammering as a valid and respectable way of speaking. These stammering-affirming therapy approaches look to shift how people feel about and approach their stammer in daily life to build a shared world that respects and sees value in stammering.
Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £169.00
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