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February 5, 2025

Supporting children with speech, language and communication needs which impact on their social, emotional and mental health needs – Early Years – Social, Emotional and Mental Health

Language development is central to self-regulation: children use language to guide their actions and plans e.g. self-talk which we can model to show our own ...

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February 4, 2025

Age 16-18 -Suggestions for the SENDCo for Sensory and Physical Needs

Liaising with Torbay Hearing Support Service - Family Hub / Torbay VI (Visual Impairment) Service - Family Hub specialist teachers for advice and guidance, pre-entry. ...

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February 4, 2025

Age 16-18 – Universal Support for Dyscalculia

All staff will: Provide starter and/or plenary retrieval quiz to support memory and retention. Provide coloured paper for handouts. Exercise books with coloured pages. Provide ...

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February 18, 2025

Requesting an Education, Health and Care needs assessment (Practice Guidance for Early Years Setting SENDCos)

“Where, despite the setting having taken relevant and purposeful action to identify, assess and meet the special educational needs of the child, the child has ...

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August 28, 2025

The Role of the Early Years Advisory Teacher (EYAT) for Inclusion (Practice Guidance for Early Years Setting SENDCos)

The Early Years Advisory Teacher for Inclusion will work in close partnership with the Special Educational Needs and Disability Co-ordinators (SENDCos) in Early Years Settings ...

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October 6, 2025

Torbay Locality Model Pilot

What is a Locality Model? A Locality Model is not a new concept and many Local Areas have adopted the principles in their own locality ...

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April 2, 2024

MIND

Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. Their website contains useful information on a range of mental health problems, ...

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January 2, 2025

Funding

Please find information about funding for children and young people with additional needs here. Worried about or new to SEND - Family Hub

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Torbay SEND voice- cognition

February 4, 2025

Assessment tools for Cognition and Learning Needs

Dyslexia screener tools Dyslexia screening - British Dyslexia Association Reading/spelling measures British Picture Vocabulary Scales (BPVS) Using the British Picture Vocabulary Scale to support exceptional ...

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Torbay SEND Voice Sensory and physical needs

February 4, 2025

Assessment Tools for Sensory and Physical Needs

Colour screening IGF (information Gathering Form) – Occupational Therapy will send out to complement information on the referral Occupational Therapy Sensory Pathway Booklet with diary ...

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