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.
- Self-compassion for people who stammerCourse start date: Tue 10 Nov 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Carolyn CheasmanThis is an experiential course for people who stammer that will introduce you to key elements of self-compassion through some theory and practice.
Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £20.00 - Effective counselling skills for speech and language therapistsCourse start date: Wed 18 Nov 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anita McKiernan, Amy Stewart, Barbara WilkinsonDesigned 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 - BSL intensive fingerspelling practiceCourse start date: Sat 21 Nov 2026 (and 1 other date)
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 - Embodied voice for people who stammerCourse start date: Sat 5 Dec 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vivien Grant-JonesThis course will provide you with skills to become knowledgeable about your own voice as an instrument. Through the work introduced you will gain insights into how you currently use and relate to your voice. The course will facilitate you to identify what you like about your voice and provide a safe place to play with possibilities. Getting to know your voice will be a creative process realised through engaging in experiential voice work.
Designed specifically for people who stammer/stutter. This course places no interest or importance on fluency. Instead, this course will introduce concepts and practical opportunities to cultivate skills to experience speaking in flow.
Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £41.00 Concession £12.00 - English for deaf people: Getting started with vocabulary - part 2 (pre-entry)Course start date: Mon 4 Jan 2027
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course is suitable if you have recently arrived in the UK from abroad and/or missed out on the education at school due to communication barriers. This course will help you to develop your basic communication skills in various social settings such as starting, maintaining and ending the conversations, confirming your understanding of the conversation flow and/or ask for clarification if/when necessary, asking and answering questions on various social topics etc. You will develop your basic vocabulary linked to everyday life, spelling and punctuation.You will also develop basic study skills to help you to complete simple tasks and do homework on your own. This course has no exam. To be able to participate in this course, you will need to have basic BSL skills.
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 for deaf people: Reading for pleasure (entry 1) - part 2Course start date: Thu 7 Jan 2027
Location on this date: Keeley Street
The aim of this course is to develop your reading skills in a friendly and supportive environment. During this course you will read various book stories chosen by the tutor. You will also be discussing your reading materials in BSL, learning new vocabulary and exploring the structure of English. This course has no exams.
This course is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in English. For more information Click here
- Maths for deaf people: Getting started with maths - (Entry 1 - Entry 2) - part 2Course start date: Sat 9 Jan 2027
Location on this date: Keeley Street
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 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: improvers module 2Course start date: Mon 11 Jan 2027 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nicola HicksDevelop 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 improvers module 1.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £116.00 Concession £90.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: beginners module 3Course start date: Tue 12 Jan 2027 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Daryl JoyceThis 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 £179.00 Concession £90.00 - English for deaf people: Practical Communication Skills for Work (Entry 2) - part 2Course start date: Wed 13 Jan 2027
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Do you want to develop your communication skills to participate, express and progress at work? This course will use a range of techniques to enable you to get ahead in work situations. You will be introduced to practical language, vocabulary and skills. You will learn through realistic activities that are based on various work situations. This course has no exam.
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 - Level 6 in BSLCourse start date: Wed 13 Jan 2027
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Ideal if you have achieved your level 3 or level 4 in BSL, depending on your BSL skills, and are ready to progress to Level 6. This course is suitable for you if you want to continue to develop your skills up to the appropriate standard at level 6 in BSL. This course will enable you to understand and use complex BSL in a range of work and social situations. By the end of the course you will need to achieve all 6 assessments to gain a qualification at level 6.Full fee £1,899.00 Senior fee £1,899.00 Concession £1,899.00 - Deaf history: one-day courseCourse start date: Sat 16 Jan 2027
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 - Deaf history part 2Course start date: Thu 21 Jan 2027
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Peter BrownThis exciting course covers information about the history of the Deaf community, education, media and sport to a more advanced and in depth level. It is taught in BSL, and hearing people with a minimum of level 2 in BSL are welcome.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £111.00 - Become more lipreadable
Course start date: Fri 5 Feb 2027 (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 - Refresher workshop for people who stammerCourse start date: Fri 5 Feb 2027
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Carolyn Cheasman, Vivien Grant-JonesFeeling a bit rusty when it comes to working on your stammering? If you have already completed some therapy either at City Lit or elsewhere, this workshop offers you the ideal opportunity to revise what you’ve learnt so far, practise your speech techniques and to become more open about, and desensitised to, stammering.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £16.00
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