Clinical and Therapeutic Support

Specialist Education

Clinical and Therapeutic Support

At Cambian Whinfell School we benefit from having a closely integrated multi-disciplinary team that includes:

• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

• Psychology (education and clinical where needed)

• Speech and Language Therapy

• Occupational Therapy

• Psychiatry

In this video, Principal Paddy Sandham shares how the clinical and therapeutic team works behind the scenes to support every aspect of a young person’s journey.

The team informs the waking curriculum and the environment around each young person. We have a solution-focussed approach and concentrate on developing emotional self-regulation and resilience.

We focus on the development of personal, social, communication and living skills and deliver through an informed Individual Development Plan for each young person.

Meet Cat Bradshaw - our Speech and Language Therapist at Cambian Whinfell School.

Cat explains how she supports our students with their communication skills in the exclusive video interview below:

Whinfell continues to effectively meet the needs of the young person, through its multi-disciplinary Specialist Intervention team. This team includes a Clinical Psychologist, Educational Psychologist, Speech and Language Therapist (SaLT), and Occupational Therapist (OT).

The young person remains engaged in clinical sessions to address complex childhood trauma and develop coping strategies for managing daily activities in light of his attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) / autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnoses.

This comprehensive support has led to positive outcomes, notably improved education attendance and successful engagement in work experience, where he is acquiring valuable life skills.

- Social Worker