TRAINING COURSES IN 2008/9
The Michael Palin Centre is a team of experienced specialist speech and language therapists working in the field of disorders of fluency, with a range of additional post-graduate qualifications. Each member of the team is involved in clinical work with children and adults who stammer, offering a full individual consultation service, specialist therapy packages on an individual or group basis, a range of teaching within our national teaching programme, supervision of generalist and specialist therapists, writing and research.
We approach stammering from a multi-factorial perspective and tailor our treatment accordingly. We collaborate closely as a team and with others in the profession, and place an emphasis on working with the whole family system. Our approach is integrative and responsive to the needs of each individual. Alongside fluency therapy, we aim to address issues of behaviour management, develop family problem solving skills, increase children’s self-esteem and offer support to parents. We help the children and their parents to make changes in their view of the stammering problem, in their view of themselves and of their coping ability, in making choices about how they approach problems and in making changes in behavioural terms.
We draw on a range of psychological treatment methods in our work, in particular Personal Construct Psychology, Brief Therapy and Cognitive Therapy. We believe that psychological reconstruction of the problem facilitates long-term maintenance so we place equal value on addressing the psychological aspects of stammering as well as the behavioural components.
Courses run from 9.30am until 5pm each day. Registration on the first day of each course will begin at 9am
For an application form please download here or call us on 0207 530 4238.
Primary school children who stammer: realising their potential
4th to 6th November 2008 (3 days) Cost £100
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Building skills in speech management
25th and 26th November 2008 (2 days) Cost £75
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Palin Parent-Child Interaction therapy for pre-school children who stammer
4th to 6th March 2009 (3 days)
15th to 17th September 2009 (3 days)
Cost £150 including the manual Practical Intervention for Early Childhood Stammering: Palin PCI Approach by Elaine Kelman & Alison Nicholas (2008)
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Palin Parent-Child Interaction therapy for pre-school children who stammer – one day update
5th February 2009 (1 day)
Cost £60 including the manual Practical Intervention for Early Childhood
Stammering: Palin PCI Approach by Elaine Kelman & Alison Nicholas (2008) or £40 without the manual
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Primary school children who stammer: realising their potential
18th to 20th May 2009 (3 days) Cost £120
3rd to 5th November 2009 (3 days) Cost £120
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Secondary school children who stammer: realising their potential
26th to 28th January 2009 (3 days) Cost £100 (charitably subsidised)
24th to 26th June 2009 (3 days) Cost £120
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Research and its application to clinical practice
12th & 13th May 2009 (2 days) Cost: FREE (charitably funded)
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An introduction to Brief Therapy
10th & 11th June 2009 (2 days) Cost £80
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Developing skills in working with parents
7th & 8th July 2009 (2 days) Cost £80
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Building skills in speech management
5th & 6th October 2009 (2 days) Cost £80
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An introduction to Cognitive Therapy
17th to 19th November 2009 (3 days) Cost £120
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TRAINING WITHIN HEALTH TRUSTS OR REGIONS
The Michael Palin Centre has developed a National Teaching Programme over the past few years. Members of the team have been running training courses for SLT teams within their own Primary Care Trust enabling teams (and neighbouring teams) to access training and develop a whole team approach.
Cost £1,000 per day (+ travel & accommodation)
INDIVIDUAL TRAINING
We offer a one-week observation and training programme to speech and language therapists within the Centre. Therapists can specify the client group they wish to focus on and we try to arrange a programme to suit their needs. During the week there are opportunities for clinical observation, skills practice, reading and discussion with members of the team. Cost £300
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SUPERVISION
We offer individual supervision sessions to generalist and specialist therapists working with clients who stammer of all ages. Frequency and timing of sessions can be arranged according to your individual needs and may include discussion of therapy approaches, video material and clinical cases.
Cost £65 per hour (charitably subsidised for 2009)
INTENSIVE GROUP THERAPY TRAINING
These 2-week programmes are held during the Easter and Summer holidays for 10-14 year olds and their parents, and in the Summer holidays for young adults, 15-18 years old. We invite speech and language therapists to observe and participate in these groups. Experience in a variety of group management skills and intervention strategies is gained in a highly practical context. Cost £500
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If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss your individual or team training needs.
Research Programmes
