Training
Who is eligible for our training courses?
We offer our training to professionals working in Barnsley and where recommended by a therapist, to parents and carers.
More information
We run the following courses
- Building vocabulary
- Speech sound difficulties (Phonology)
- Stammering
- Helping children understanding questions
- Elklan – working with children aged 3-5
- Elklan – working with children aged 5-11
Our courses run online and most are free. You can find more details in the training brochure link.
Training Brochure
How to apply
For the following courses apply through Eventbrite – Apply here
- Building vocabulary skills
- Speech sound difficulties
- Stammering
- Helping children to understand questions
More information about booking through Eventbrite
- Eventbrite will show available dates.
- Complete the application form. Include your job title/setting or let us know you are a parent/carer.
- Eventbrite automatically confirms your booking.
- If you need to cancel, go to Eventbrite
- Links for the training are sent to your email, 1 – 2 weeks before the date of the training
- Follow us on Eventbrite to be updated with our latest training events. If the dates are not suitable, we add new dates periodically so keep checking.
- If you don’t meet the eligibility criteria Applications may be cancelled by the service if you do not meet the eligibility criteria at which point you will be notified by email
For the following courses contact our office on barnsley.speechtherapy@swyt.nhs.uk
- Elklan – working with children aged 3-5 *
- Elklan – working with children aged 5-11 *
*There is a small charge payable to Elklan for their manual and accreditation
Feedback from our training courses
Our courses are highly recommended by participants. Read below for some of the feedback from our recent courses
- “All the information was presented in a way that was really easy to understand”
- “Excellent ideas and strategies and a good background to reasons behind speech difficulty
- (I enjoyed) “ trying things out rather than just listening” and enjoyed “the ideas for games and new strategies to implement learning”.
- “Very helpful training which I look forward to feeding back to the team.”
- “Good strategies to use with children and clear advice.”
- “Loved the DVD, showed me how children felt and what strategies I can use.”
- “Helped me understand more about the child I’m working with, how to model my speech and apply useful strategies within the classroom environment.”
Other training providers
The speech therapy service does not offer Makaton training. Training from other providers can be found by contacting the Makaton website.
The Elklan courses listed and other training is available direct from Elklan