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.
- Stammering - affirming shared world buildingCourse start date: Fri 30 Jan 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.
Sam Simpson is a speech and language therapist, person-centred counsellor, supervisor and trainer (www.redefiningstammering.co.uk) living outside London, England. Sam has a particular interest in critical disability studies, stammering activism and what stammering can teach us about ourselves and the world, and actively promotes stammering-affirming therapy practices and culture. Together with Carolyn Cheasman and Rachel Everard, Sam co-edited 'Stammering Therapy from the Inside: New Perspectives on Working with Young People and Adults' in 2013, which set out to enrich professional accounts of contemporary stammering therapy by including clients as co-authors of therapy knowledge. Together with Patrick Campbell and Christopher Constantino, Sam co-edited 'Stammering Pride and Prejudice: Difference not Defect' in 2019. Combining personal narrative, art and disability theory, the book documents how society has historically disabled people who stammer and the diverse ways in which people are creating novel and exciting understandings of their speech. They are currently collaborating on the sequel. Sam is a founder member of Stuttering Commons (https://www.stutteringcommons.org/) an international education initiative aiming to deconstruct, unsettle and bend fluency privilege.
Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00 - Maths for deaf people: Deaf History Through Time: Understanding Timelines (Entry Level)Course start date: Fri 6 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course introduces learners to Deaf history, highlighting important dates, time periods, and events that have influenced the Deaf community. Learners will gain a basic understanding of key historical events and cultural achievements. They will also learn to identify dates, follow timelines, and connect these dates to important events in Deaf history.
This course is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in Maths. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - BSL intensive fingerspelling practiceCourse start date: Sat 7 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Peter BrownAre you on a level 1 or 2 BSL course and would like to improve your ability to use and understand BSL fingerspelling? This workshop is taught by a highly experienced teacher and provides a perfect opportunity to focus on this particular area of BSL.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Counselling skills for recently qualified speech and language therapistsCourse start date: Wed 11 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vivien Grant-JonesDevelop and practise a range of essential core counselling skills to help you work with emotional issues you will encounter as an SLT. You will receive feedback and learn through experience and reflective practice. This course is suitable for recently qualified therapists as well as therapists in training.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - Become more lipreadable
Course start date: Fri 13 Feb 2026 (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.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Embodied voice for people who (consistently or sometimes) speak too fastCourse start date: Wed 18 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vivien Grant-JonesThis course will most benefit students who experience cluttering. Some features of cluttering are:
• Speaking quickly, often with rapid bursts of speech
• Some words being unclear or mis-pronounced
• Difficulties in explaining and conveying sequences of information
• Difficulties in being understood by the listener
Cluttering can be present as the only communication challenge or alongside stammering, dyslexia and/or ADHD (formal diagnosis is not required).
This course will provide you with skills to become more aware and knowledgeable of your voice and speech. The course will also explore ways to develop effective listening and communication strategies.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £20.00 - Narrative therapy for speech and language therapistsCourse start date: Wed 18 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: 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 £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00 - Public speaking for people who stammerCourse start date: Fri 27 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vivien Grant-Jones, Anita McKiernanPresenting information clearly and effectively is vital to getting your message or opinion across. This two-day workshop is about developing key presentation skills and confidence when speaking to a group of people, whether it’s giving a formal or impromptu presentation, contributing to a meeting or taking part in a discussion.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £16.00 - Advancing your practice for speech and language therapists Course start date: Fri 27 Feb 2026 (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.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £139.00 - Level 3 BSL receptive skills practiceCourse start date: Sat 28 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Emma IliffeAre you currently on a Level 3 course in BSL? If you need some guidance by an experienced teacher, this course will provide guidance and tips to help you develop strategies for how best to approach the level 3 receptive exam (Unit 321).Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Working with adults who stammer: a course for speech and language therapists Course start date: Mon 16 Mar 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jenny YeatmanDesigned for speech and language therapists, this four-day interactive workshop will cover assessment and selection, stammering modification, interiorised stammering, cluttering, acquired stammering and an introduction to mindfulness. Opportunity to practise teaching techniques to clients included.
Note: this course runs on these days: March 16-18; and an online follow-up day on October 5.Full fee £599.00 Senior fee £599.00 Concession £599.00 - Open Stammering - Mindful Drawing Course start date: Wed 18 Mar 2026
Location on this date: Online
This course brings together adults who stammer to participate in an online Mindful Drawing event.
City Lit fosters a stammer affirming environment where stammering is welcomed in all its forms. We recognise the experience of stammering is individual. Our Open Stammering events are an opportunity to build connections and gain support in the stammering community through creative, collaborative endeavours.Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £27.00 Concession £8.00 - English entry 3 for deaf people - part 3 Course start date: Mon 13 Apr 2026
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 - English grammar for deaf people (entry 2) - part 3 Course start date: Mon 13 Apr 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course is suitable if you have enough vocabulary to be able to read and write basic sentences. During this course, you will learn more vocabulary and grammar to help you talk, read and write about yourself, your family and friends and complete forms, short sms and e-mails. 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 - English for deaf people: Managing your personal finances (Entry Level)Course start date: Tue 14 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Online
Learning how to handle money is very important in life. It doesn't matter how old you are - it's always a good time to get better at it. During this course you will explore different ways of managing your money so you can reach your goals, deal with unexpected stuff, and feel good about having enough money. We'll make it fun and interesting to learn about money. By the end, you'll understand why having a budget is important, how to keep track of what you spend, be ready for bills, and even plan for big things like a holiday or buying a home.
This course is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in Maths. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00
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