Cambian Group schools and colleges are first and foremost places of Active Learning™. Education is a preparation for life.

With our holistic approach to education, academic studies go hand in hand with student-centred therapeutic input. Without specialist support, learning in the traditional sense – towards the National Curriculum, GCSEs, A-Levels and vocational qualifications – presents many of our students with challenges that prevent their natural ability from shining through.

There is no standard journey to acquire skills and knowledge. We start with an assessment of the unique needs of each individual to create a personalised Individual Education Plan and Care Plan.

Therapists are an important part of every multidisciplinary team. Expertise will be shared across all disciplines so that a consistent approach is achieved for every student, no matter where they are or who is interacting with them.

All our students have access to:

Speech and Language Therapy

• To facilitate effective use of existing communication skills
• To enable students to learn and develop new communication skills

Occupational Therapy

To provide practical support for students so they are able to make progress with:
• Sensory issues
• Life skills, including personal hygiene
• Motor coordination and hand skills
• Self-regulation to improve concentration
• Organisational skills

 Behavioural Therapy

To develop positive coping strategies for dealing with:
• Anxiety-promoting situations
• Anger and other challenging behaviours
• Sensory processing difficulties
• Social interaction

Physiotherapy

To help students who may have problems with:
• Gross motor skills (muscle weakness, postural control, poor balance, motor planning, quality of movement)
• Sports skills (running, jumping, catching and throwing ball, kicking ball, riding bicycle etc.)

Music Therapy

• Promote self-expression
• Enhance capacity for two-way communication
• Encourage more overt social interactions
• Develop the communicative use of voice
• Increase tolerance to sound

Art Therapy

To use appropriate art forms in a safe, facilitating environment to:
• Encourage self-expression
• Develop inter-personal skills
• Increase self-esteem
• Resolve internal conflicts
• Increase tolerance to touching different materials

Drama Therapy

To use drama to bring about positive psychological, emotional and social changes by means of:
• Story-telling
• Role play
• Acting
• Mime
• Improved voice production

Equine therapy

To promote well-being through interaction with horses
This can offer challenges which may help:
• Overcome fears
• Build up trust, respect and compassion
• Develop communication skills
• Increase self-esteem
• Develop problem-solving techniques and coping strategies

Many of our schools and colleges will provide additional therapies. With each therapy, the idea is that skills, once acquired in a non-threatening environment, can be transferred to many other areas of day to day life.

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