Services

The school (with parental permission) or parent(s) can commision an educational psychologist to work with an individual child.

The programme of work most frequently involves some or all of the following:

Silva Psychology offers regular consultation support to all special educational needs co-ordinators across schools in both state and independent sectors.

The key areas for SENCO support have often included:

Silva Psychology offers regular consultation support to all parents wishing to monitor/improve their skills and knowledge in supporting their child’s academic and/or social, emotional and behavioural skills.

Silva Psychology also delivers various training workshops to small groups of parents, appropriate to the age group of the children concerned and needs of the parents/school requesting the workshop. Examples of parent workshops include:

Silva Psychology offers regular consultation support to class teachers wishing to monitor/improve their skills and knowledge in supporting the academic and/or social, emotional and behavioural skills of children in their class.

It may be that teachers want specific advice re: individual children in their class (in which case consent from parents will need to be obtained) or a group of children in their class (all of whom present with the same concern, e.g. poor reading comprehension; poor listening and attention skills etc).

Silva Psychology delivers ongoing consultation by contributing to a school team’s discussions and plans to drive forward whole school development work.

Examples of EP involvement in staff training or whole school development projects include: