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Welcome to our Pearson Assessment UK blog. My name is Simone Lewendon and I am the Marketing Communications Manager for Pearson Assessment.
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Tag Archives: children and young people
More funding has just been announced for children’s mental health services, but there’s a long way to go…
Fergal Roche, CEO of The Key, writes about school leaders’ concerns about pupil wellbeing At the end of last month, the government announced that it is to invest £143 million in improving children’s mental health services in England this year … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Posts, Psychology
Tagged children and young people, Education, Mental health, Schools, The Key
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Parents as partners for better speech, language and communication outcomes
Shona Crichton from The Communication Trust writes about ‘Parents as partners for better speech, language and communication outcomes’ 1 We know that children make progress in any area of their development when they can be supported to thrive in the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Posts
Tagged charity, children and young people, communication, language, parents, slcn, SLTs, speech, the communication trust
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When Appearing to do Nothing is the Strongest Intervention | Pearson Blog
Shelley Hughes, SROT, Senior Product Manager, Pearson Clinical Assessment talks on ‘When Appearing to do Nothing is the Strongest Intervention’ via our US blog. Something I am regularly asked is how to intervene with particular profiles derived from administering a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Health, Posts
Tagged Assessment, children and young people, clinicians, Education, intervention, Occupational Therapy, participation, pearson
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Inspired by communication champions and best practice
Last Friday, a team of 25 judges came together to decide the results of this year’s Shine a Light Awards. This year Pearson Clinical Assessment and The Communication Trust, were once again incredibly lucky to have an exceptional panel of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Events, Posts
Tagged AAC, Assessment, awards, charity, children and young people, communication, communication trust, pearson, slcn
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Shine a Light Awards: Introducing our judges
The Shine a Light Awards are officially open, and this year we’ve been joined by some fantastic judges who will have the unenviable task of selecting this year’s winners. This week we welcome Julie Steele, a Specialist Speech and Language HLTA. Continue reading
Posted in Education, Events, Health, Posts
Tagged Assessment, awards, charity, children and young people, communication, learners, schools SLT, slcn, slt, students
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Do you know a Communication Champion? The Shine a Light Awards Open.
Good communication skills are essential for learning and making friends, and have wide impacts across a child’s development, which is why The Communication Trust and Pearson Assessment have today launched the fourth Shine a Light Awards 2015. Featuring new categories, these awards will recognise teams, settings and individuals across England who supports children and young people’s communication needs. Continue reading
Free SEN Breakfast Event this May
Pearson Assessment invites you to join a breakfast meeting on the topic of SEN Reforms and the EHCPs on the 22nd May in Central London. Keynote speaker Malcolm Reeve, Director of Education for Special Needs and Disabilities, Academies Enterprise Trust … Continue reading
‘time to talk’ Countywide Conference 2014 – Guest Blog Post
This week’s guest blog post is from Deborah Powers, Speech and Language Therapist from the ‘time to talk’. ‘time to talk’ were recipients of The Shine a Light Award 2013/14 for Children’s Workforce. We caught up with them to see what other activities the team had undertaken since winning this prestigious award. Continue reading
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Tagged Assessment, awards, chatter matters, children and young people, children's workforce, communication, Communication Friendly Spaces, early years, Elizabeth Jarman, events, language, Pearson Assessment, sensory, shine a light awards, slt, speech, storytelling, time to talk, warwickshire
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Shine a Light 2014: Decision time
On the 21st February, 17 judges comprising of a mixture of industry experts and past Shine a Light Award winners, met to debate the outcomes of this year’s awards. Shut away in the depths of the Pearson building, each panel … Continue reading
A look at our recent ADOS-2 clinical workshops
This month our 3rd ADOS-2 Clinical Workshop (now endorsed by the College of Occupational Therapists) was held at our London offices. It went ahead despite the floods, train lines being swamped and the prospect of yet another tube strike! Luckily … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Health, Posts, Psychology
Tagged ADOS-2, autism, Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, children and young people, College of Occupational Therapists, CPD, events, Fiona Scott, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy, pearson, Pearson Assessment, PsychCorp, Psychology, Spectrum Specialist Consultancy Ltd, Speech and Language Therapists, training
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