Specialist Learning Courses

This course will build your confidence on how to use digital devices and the internet. This course has no exams.

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

This is a powerful approach to therapy. You'll learn to work more effectively with negative thoughts and feelings through acceptance and mindfulness work. You'll also learn how to identify, and move towards, valued goals and directions in your life.

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Learn the elements of mindfulness-based stress management and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. Experience a range of mindfulness practices. Background theory is included and relevance for clients and therapist well-being benefits will be explored.

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

This course will help you how to create and design your own website using free resources. Ideal if you want to create own websites for deaf organisations, deaf clubs or deaf websites.

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

This course will help you to set up a new account with different communication and relay services - SignVideo, SignLive, NGT or Relay UK. You will be able to make your own phone calls through relay services.

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Do 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 delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

This course will help you get become confident in your everyday communication including reading and writing. We will focus on topics that interest you and use these to help you improve the key elements of reading and writing as well as communication skills to enable you to express your thoughts and feelings including in difficult situations. You will learn to how write whole sentences and paragraphs, use adjectives effectively, organise your writing, make notes and complete drafts, spell important common words, use punctuation correctly and develop reading and writing strategies most suited to you. And you will learn some digital skills including reading and finding information from websites.

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

This course will help you improve your communication skills including reading and writing. It will enable you to become confident in writing longer texts and reading more complex articles, information, descriptions and stories. You will also become more confident at formal and informal conversations. We will look at how English sentences are put together and how you can write more complex sentences confidently. We will see how formal English differs from informal English, which will help you with both your reading and writing. Along the way, you will work on your spelling strategies to improve the accuracy of your written work. And you will learn some useful digital skills including reading and finding information from websites.

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

This course will help you develop your reading skills. On the course you will learn about the different types of texts and the main points of a text and develop your comprehension skills.

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

You will learn about the importance of planning your writing and preparing a draft to use to work on your final version. You will also learn about using formal and informal language and also the importance of writing in a logical sequence and using paragraphs. English spelling is quite difficult and some focus will be given to spelling rules to help you with that.

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Do you enjoy reading stories and wish to improve your communication and discussion skills? Then this is the course for you. Extend your reading skills by working out meaning, and learn how to express yourself and your opinions across a range of different types of stories.

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Are you new to Excel? This course will help you to understand the basics of Excel including creating simple worksheets and simple graphs for housekeeping.

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Designed 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.

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

The two major goals of ACT are acceptance of experience that is out of personal control and taking committed action towards living a valued life. On this workshop you'll learn how this is achieved and ACT's relevance to speech and language therapy.

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.