Specialist learning

Specialist Learning Courses

From vocational courses and qualifications in care work, Access to Higher EducationBritish Sign Language (BSL) and teacher training to specialist courses in speech therapy and courses for students with learning difficulties.

Courses available both in-person and online

Join us in the heart of London for in-person classes. Our modern campus in Covent Garden is easy to reach and buzzing with creativity. With modern purpose-built facilities and state-of-the-art equipment, it’s the perfect space to support your learning journey. Explore our facilities >

Prefer learning online? Our live online courses bring expert teaching to you, wherever you are.

Whether you choose to study in-person or online, all our courses are live, interactive, and taught by expert tutors. Wherever and however you want to learn, we’re here for you.

Courses available both in-person and online

We offer a range of long and short courses allowing you to choose between in-person and online learning.

Learn in the centre of London with our in-person courses. Our purpose-built facilities in Covent Garden mean we are ideally located and easy to get to. 

See our guide to online learning for more information about accessing our live online courses.

All our courses are live, interactive, and taught by expert tutors. No matter how you prefer to learn, we've got the class for you.

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  1. Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £153.00
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  2. Effective counselling skills for speech and language therapists
    Course start date:  Wed 21 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Louise Hillyer, Anita McKiernan, Amy Stewart
    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.
    Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £449.00 Concession £449.00
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  3. Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00
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  4. Train the Trainer
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    Course start date:  Sat 25 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Trevor England
    'Train the Trainer' is a practical 2 day course designed to help you gain ideas for effective facilitation and managing groups. It is suitable if you are thinking of becoming a trainer and want to gain confidence in planning and facilitating the training, or if you are an experienced trainer and want to refresh your practice. You will leave with some tools and techniques that will ensure your training is engaging and productive for your learners. On day 2 you will have the opportunity to deliver a short micro-training or interactive presentation. You are required to attend both days of this course.
    Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £129.00
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  5. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £90.00
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  6. The City Lit 7-day intensive course for adults who stammer
    Course start date:  Fri 6 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Learn strategies to help you speak more easily, work on becoming less sensitive and worried about stammering (also known as stuttering), reduce avoidance strategies and work towards saying what you want to say when you want to say it. This intensive course will enable you to make maximum progress in minimum time and will give you a solid foundation to continue to make positive changes following the course. It runs on these dates (Fri and Sat): June 6-7; June 20-21; July 4-5; July 25. We will also provide videoconferencing (Zoom) group support sessions dates tbc.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £195.00 Concession £56.00
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  7. Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £41.00 Concession £12.00
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  8. Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £229.00
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  9. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £79.00
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  10. Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00
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  11. Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £45.00 Concession £35.00
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  12. Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00
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  13. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00
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  14. English entry 3 for deaf people - part 1
    Course start date:  Mon 8 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    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 is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in English. For more information Click here

    Full fee £0.00
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  15. English and Maths for deaf people: Getting started with English and Maths (pre-entry) - part 1
    Course start date:  Mon 8 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    This course is suitable if you have arrived in the UK from abroad and/or missed out on the education at school due to communication barriers. On this course, you will learn more vocabulary of English words and use them in reading and writing basic sentences. You will also will work with basic numbers, measures, shapes and use of data. It is a very practical course and the skills you learn can be applied to your every day life contexts. You will be introduced to google classroom basic functions. 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

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