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.
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- Introduction to BSL
Course start date: Fri 17 Jan 2025 (and 5 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Antony RabinInterested in learning British Sign Language? Learn some basic vocabulary and grammar, and decide if you want to progress to the level 1 qualification.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £153.00 - BSL level 1 Course start date: Fri 9 May 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Samuel GeorgesHave you always wanted to learn British Sign Language and communicate with Deaf people? Develop the skills you need to gain the level 1 BSL qualification, accredited by Signature. The fees for BSL level 1 courses include a year's subscription to Signworld.
You may wish to study BSL without the pressure of an exam, or just for fun. We can arrange for you to be taught without a formal final assessment and you will receive a certificate of attendance.Full fee £629.00 Senior fee £528.00 Concession £477.00 - Award in education and training (City & Guilds 6502)Course start date: Fri 10 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Laila ShariffThe City & Guilds (6502) Award in Education and Training is an initial teacher training course ideal for anyone who teaches adults - or has experience of teaching adults - in Further Education or Adult and Community Learning. We may also consider you if you do not have teaching experience, but are qualified in your subject and have worked in a related field. This course will me mainly online with two sessions at City Lit towards the end of the course. Please note this course will be mainly online, except for sessions 8 and 10, and possibly 11.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £599.00 Senior fee £599.00 Concession £407.00 - Level 3 certificate in BSL Course start date: Fri 10 Jan 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pat ParkeIdeal if you have passed level 2 in BSL and are ready to develop the knowledge and skills you need to achieve the level 3 qualification, accredited by Signature.Full fee £1,469.00 Senior fee £1,469.00 Concession £1,469.00 - Maths for Deaf People: Introduction to Maths Entry 2 - Entry 3Course start date: Fri 17 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Want to improve your everyday maths and feel more confident with time, money, and measurements? This course will help you practice tasks like adding, subtracting, and working with numbers used in daily life. By the end, you'll better understand how maths is all around you and how it can make life easier.
Free course: This is a Multiply course. Multiply is a new government programme to help adults improve their numeracy skills. This course is free for Londoners aged 19 or over. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - Narrative therapy for speech and language therapists Course start date: Fri 31 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jan Logan, Anita McKiernanThis workshop introduces you to the theory underpinning narrative ways of working. Learn about key narrative ideas and practices including: externalising, re authoring, listening for alternative storylines, and develop skills in narrative questioning. Relevant for therapists working with a range of client groups.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - Become more lipreadable Course start date: Fri 14 Feb 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Lorraine BragginsDo you know a hard of hearing or deaf person who needs to lipread you? Find out how lipreading works and how you can make some small adjustments in order to become more 'lipreadable'.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Advancing your practice for speech and language therapists Course start date: Fri 18 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Carolyn Cheasman, Corinne Moffatt-SantosThis 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.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - Managing hearing loss at work Course start date: Fri 9 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nicola HicksThis course is for people who have a hearing loss and who work in an office environment. It covers a range of common office scenarios and issues that arise for people with hearing loss.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - Pre-level 3 in BSL Course start date: Fri 4 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pat ParkeHave you have passed your level 2 in BSL but need more confidence and advice before moving on to a level 3 course? You will improve the standard of your productive and receptive BSL skills to enable you to converse comfortably with a BSL user.Full fee £629.00 Senior fee £503.00 Concession £440.00 - Communication with older people with a hearing loss Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lorraine BragginsThe course will cover the features of age-related hearing loss and how these relate to what, and how, older people hear and understand. Participants will learn communication strategies so that older people can understand them better.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language. - Discover Art (for people with learning difficulties)Course start date: Fri 27 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This is a foundation course for students with an ability in art. In the art studio you will explore a range of art materials and equipment.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £199.00 - Mixed Media Art (for people with learning difficulties)Course start date: Fri 27 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Explore ways to combine and collage using a range of materials including fabric, photocopies, found materials and painting to create contemporary art works.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £199.00 - Soundscapes (for people with learning difficulties)Course start date: Fri 27 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Compose music with computers. Make music with keyboards and synthesizers. Upload your music to Soundcloud.
Present your work in performance.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £199.00 - Digital skills and English for deaf people: Improve your English via Word (entry 2) - part 2 Course start date: Fri 10 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course will help you to get confident in reading, writing and communication. You will learn to read pieces of texts, write sentences, spell correctly and use punctuation.You will also learn all the basic functions of creating Word documents: adding, copying, moving and formatting text, inserting pictures and creating tables, checking spelling and grammar, changing the page layout and printing different documents accurately. This course has no exams.
This course is free for learners who have digital skills assessed as below level 1. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00
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