SEND training guide for professionals

6. Basic Awareness Training for specific partners

Early years practitioners

Deaf or deaf (D/deaf) children

Deaf babies and children encounter specific hurdles in communication and language that influence their relationships, learning, and overall well-being. The Anna Freud Deafness and me toolkit aims to build understanding of the barriers that deaf children may experience and provide information and activities that can build positive mental health. The term ‘deaf’ is being used to refer to all types of hearing loss from mild to profound.

Local authority partners

Course centre - Blackburn with Darwen Learning (melearning.university)

• Safeguarding Children with Disabilities
• Epilepsy Awareness
• Autism Awareness
• Disability Awareness
• Dysphagia Awareness
• Positive Mental Health Awareness
• LGBTQ+ Awareness
• 7 minute Briefings – various
• Care Certificate Standard 9 - Mental Health, Dementia and Learning Disability (Awareness)
• Early Years SEND - How to assess using the Development Journal
• Early Years SEND - Makaton Level 1 and 2 Course 
• Education Health and Care Plan

Lancashire County Council

Course library - Blue LMS (melearning.university)

• Autism Awareness 
• Mental Capacity Act

Astute LXP (astute-elearning.com)

• Suicide awareness
• Deaf Awareness
• Sight loss Awareness