Therapies

PostPosted: 11 Aug 2025Posted in HeadlinesThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND), Therapies, Training and Development

Giving Children A Voice and Supporting Parents’ Journeys With Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

The Therapies Team are excited to share the success of our three-part AAC Parent Training recently delivered at Sherwood Park School – Sherwood Hill Campus. AAC is an approach to communication that helps people to communicate or to communicate more clearly and easily (source Augmentative and alternative communication | RCSLT). ‘Augmentative’ means that it helps […]

PostPosted: 7 Aug 2025Posted in HeadlinesThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND), Therapies

Empowering Parents Through Training With Cognus Therapies

As we wrap up for the summer, we wanted to celebrate a fantastic year of parent training sessions delivered by our incredible team. Thanks to the time, passion, and expertise of our therapists, we supported 140 parents across six impactful sessions. The sessions covered everything from emotional regulation, independence skills, motor skill development and communication […]

PostPosted: 3 Mar 2025Posted in HeadlinesThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND), Therapies

A Sweet Deal – Working at Cognus Therapies

(Reading Careers Fair Dec 2024) In December 2024, two of our dedicated Speech and Language Therapists (SaLT), Fran Yelf and Grace Flowers, attended the Reading University Careers Fair to provide first-hand advice to guide and inspire the next generation of Speech and Language Therapists. Armed with industry insights (and a box of Quality Street!), they […]

PostPosted: 17 Sep 2024Posted in HeadlinesThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Therapies

Social GGRRAAACCEEESSS supervision session is success for SaLTs

Speech and Language Therapists and Occupational Therapists working for Cognus Therapies were recently offered valuable in-service training from Cognus’ Educational Psychology Team on ‘Managing Difficult Conversations’. Principal Educational Psychologist, Nicholas (Nick) English delivered this training at Cognus’ offices, Cantium House in May 2024 to a large group of interested therapists. As part of the training, […]

28/02/2025 – Motor Skills for Home and School Success

Themes: Education for all (Inclusion), Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND), TherapiesAudience: Families

Aims for the session: We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming parent workshop and training on motor skills for home and school success. Our training will help provide a deeper understanding of motor skills, the developmental stages’ of gross and fine motor skills and the importance of developing these skills in learning and function […]

Fri 28 February, 2025, 12:00pm - 3:00pm