• Communication, vocational and employability skills, promoting adult status
• Residential and day
• Courses start September
• 37 weeks per year
• Maximum 46 students
• Age 16 - 25yrs

General Description of College:
Lindeth College provides 37 weeks a year courses for 46 residential and day students aged 16-25 with learning difficulties and disabilities. Owned by Craegmoor Healthcare the college is situated in a 7 acre rural site within the Lake District National Park. Provision is flexible and includes residential accommodation, 6 purpose built cottages, dedicated teaching areas and subject specific areas promoting practical and vocational skills.

The Curriculum:
Learners access education programmes offering learning opportunities throughout the 24 hour curriculum, seven days a week.
Students follow individually tailored programmes based on assessment of their needs and abilities.
The curriculum has three strands: Core Skills, Preparation for Living and Work and Vocational Work. Within this students participate in courses appropriate to their needs: Personal Development, Pathways to Independence and Preparation for Work. Community and leisure activities offer opportunities to extend skills during evenings and weekends. Courses are linked to external accreditation and the curriculum focuses on learning for living and work.
Communication skills are pivotal to our students' learning and students are encouraged to make choices and decisions and negotiate within their courses using appropriate communication strategies.
Students are supported with transition planning to ensure they move to appropriately provision post Lindeth College.

Specialist Facilities:
Speech & Language Therapist

Statements:

1. expertise in meeting the needs of students with severe learning difficulties
2. expertise in working with learners with communication difficulties
3. residential provision linked to the academic year
4. day provision
5. opportunities to work towards awards in the Foundation Learning Tier
6. a range of vocational courses with opportunities for accreditation.
7. opportunities to take Pre-Entry and Entry awards
8. opportunities to improve literacy, numeracy and communication skills
9. specialist mobility training to enable independent travel
10. a personal development programme
11. a programme to help learners to look after themselves more independently
12. opportunities to improve and develop communication skills through the use of Alternative and Augmentative Communication aids
13. opportunities to improve Information learning technology skills
14. a programme to enable students to learn more about themselves and how to form relationships
15. guidance and counselling services
16. opportunities to take part in a wide range of social, leisure and sporting activities
17. a social skills programme
18. opportunities to attend local mainstream colleges with support
19. opportunities to prepare for further training after college
20. registered care home status

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