• Specialism:
  Supporting students with complex needs (including communication difficulties)
• Residential/Day:
  Both
• Course Start Dates:
  September
• Course Length per Year in weeks:
  College course is 38 weeks per year
• Maximum Student Numbers:
  50
• Age Range:
  19 to 25

General Description of College:
courses to students aged between 19 and 25 years with a broad range of communication difficulties, including hearing impairment/limited or /oral language communication and severe/complex learning difficulties. Specialist programmes, support learners with dual sensory impairment and severe/ profound learning difficulties, learners whose primary need is autism and learners who are deaf or who have communication difficulties. Specialist teaching facilities include a fully inclusive Karten centre; accessible life skills room, dark room, sensory room, quiet place and individual work rooms. Each teaching base is designed to effectively support group and individual work stations. The acoustic and visual environment has been designed to be comfortable for learners who experience hypo/hypersensitivity to sound and vision. There are specialist facilities on campus including sports hall, an inclusive fitness suite, swimming pool, hydrotherapy pool, horticulture workshop, gamelan and dance studio. Students also make great use of the local community.

The Curriculum:
We offer an extended curriculum, with structured activities in the evenings,  weekends and in the college holidays to support the development of independence and life skills and to offer choices to meet their interests.

Statements:

1. a programme to enable students to learn more about themselves and how to form relationships
2. opportunities to improve and develop communication skills through the use of Alternative and Augmentative Communication aids
3. expertise in meeting the needs of students with severe learning difficulties
4. expertise in meeting the needs of students with profound and multiple learning difficulties
5. expertise in working with learners with multi-sensory impairment
6. expertise in working with d/Deaf learners
7. expertise in working with learners with communication difficulties
8. in-house speech and language therapy
9. in-house physiotherapy
10. an occupational therapy programme
11. opportunities to take part in a wide range of social, leisure and sporting activities
12. opportunities to attend local mainstream colleges with support
13. a work placement scheme with local employers
14. opportunities to develop strategies to promote appropriate behaviour
15. waking night residential staff
16. on site medical provision
17. help with negotiating suitable long term provision
18. registered with the Care Quality Commission
19. residential provision extending beyond the academic year
20. day provision