Training

Multiple dates available through 2024 (you only need to attend one session):

• Tuesday 12 November 2024, 9.30am to 11am
• Tuesday 14 January 2025, 9.30am to 11am
• Monday 17 March 2025, 9.30am to 11am
• Tuesday 13 May 2025, 9.30am to 11am
• Wednesday 9 July 2025, 9.30am to 11am
• Tuesday 23 September 2025, 9.30am to 11am
• Monday 24 November 2025, 9.30am to 11am

This online training session is suitable for parents and carers of children who stammer, living in York, Selby, Scarborough, Whitby, and Ryedale. It gives a brief overview of what stammering is and how you can support your child to be a confident communicator with a stammer.

To book a place, email yhs-tr.childrenstherapytraining@nhs.net.

Multiple dates available through 2024 (you only need to attend one session):

• Tuesday 28 January 2025, 3.45pm to 5.15pm
• Tuesday 29 April 2025, 3.45pm to 5.15pm
• Tuesday 30 September 2025, 3.45pm to 5.15pm

This online workshop is suitable for all setting staff and childcare providers in York, Selby, Scarborough, Whitby, and Ryedale. It gives a brief overview of what stammering is and how you can support a child in your setting to communicate confidently with a stammer.

To book a place, email yhs-tr.childrenstherapytraining@nhs.net.

• Thursday 12 December 2024, 10.30am to 12.00pm
• Wednesday 26 March 2025, 10.30am  to 12.00pm
• Wednesday 2 July 2025, 9.30am to 11.00am

This online course is suitable for professionals who work with children with speech sound difficulties and parents of children with speech sound difficulties. You'll learn how speech sounds are made/develop and get advice and strategies to consider.

• When should I refer a child?
• How do speech sounds develop?
• What can I do to support a child with speech sound difficulties?
• How are speech sounds made?
• What types of speech sound difficulties do children experience?

For more information and to book a place, email yhs-tr.childrenstherapytraining@nhs.net.

• Thursday 28 November 2024, 3.15-4.45pm

This online training session discusses the difference between picky eating and avoidant/restrictive eating, how to identify children with these difficulties, and provides ideas of strategies that will help. It will help answer some of the following questions:

• How do I know who is picky and who is restrictive?
• What will help at mealtimes?
• Where can I go for further support?
• What is ARFID?
• How is a diagnosis of ARFID made and what are the challenges?
• What strategies will help with sensory sensitivities?

The free session is available for parents and professionals across York, Selby, Scarborough, Whitby, and Ryedale.

For more information and to book a place, please email yhs-tr.childrenstherapytraining@nhs.net.

• Wednesday 29 January 2025, 3.30pm to 5.00pm (for professionals supporting secondary-aged children)
• Friday 9 May 2025, 3.30pm to 5.00pm (for professionals supporting secondary-aged children)

This e-learning session explains what selective mutism is, what causes it, how to create a ‘selective mutism friendly environment’, and how to help children with selective mutism in your school/setting. It will help answer some of the following questions:

• What is selective mutism?
• How can I identify if a child in my setting or class has selective mutism?
• What helpful information is available online and how do I find it?
• Why do children become anxious about speaking in certain situations?
• When should I refer a child?
• What can I do to help a child with selective mutism?

The free training session is suitable for professionals who work with children who are reluctant to speak or have selective mutism, across York, Selby, Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale.

For more information and to book a place, please email yhs-tr.childrenstherapytraining@nhs.net.

• 3.30pm - 5pm, Tuesday 25 March 2025

This online training session explains what 'normal swallowing' is, considers what can go wrong, and provides suggestions for how you can support children to eat and drink safely.

• What can I do to be more confident the child is eating safely?
• What types/textures of food are safe for children?
• Who can I ask about feeding difficulties, and what guidelines should I be following?
• What is a normal swallow?
• What can go wrong with swallowing?
• How do I know something has gone wrong when a child is eating?

This free training session is suitable for parents and professionals across York, Selby, Scarborough, Whitby, and Ryedale.

For more information and to book a place, email yhs-tr.childrenstherapytraining@nhs.net. 

• Thursday 5 December 2024, 10.30am to 12.00pm (for parents)

This online training session explores the evidence-base around supporting children who are at an early stage of communication development and considers how early communication skills can be practically supported within the EYFS framework. It will help answer some of the following questions:

• What is communication?
• How does typical speech, language and communication develop?
• What strategies can I use when playing with a child to support their language development?
• What helps children make sense of spoken language?
• When should I seek support for a child?
• How does supporting language development link with the EYFS framework?

This free training session is suitable for professionals who work in a primary or early years setting with children who are at an early stage of language development, across York, Selby, Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale.

For more information and to book a place, please email yhs-tr.childrenstherapytraining@nhs.net.

• Tuesday 26 November 2024, 9:30am to 12pm
• Tuesday 25 February 2025, 9:30am to 12pm

This online training session explores how we can support communication for children who present with autism/social communication differences. It's free, suitable for professionals across York, Selby, Scarborough, Whitby, and Ryedale, and will help to answer questions such as:

• What is autism?
• What is neurodiversity?
• How can my setting be neuro-affirmative?
• What is Gestalt Language Processing?

For more information or to book a place, please email yhs-tr.childrenstherapytraining@nhs.net.