• Specialism:
  Young adults with a range of learning difficulties and disabilities including epilepsy.
• Residential/Day:
  Day College with tenancies for learners/Individualised Vocational Day Programme
• Course Start Dates:
  September (occasional exceptions for January)
• Course Length per Year in weeks:
  52 week Residential Tenancy/38 week Day Programme
• Maximum Student Numbers:
  37 Residential Tenancies/10 Day Learners
• Age Range:
  18-25

General Description of College:
St Elizabeth’s College offers young people, aged 18-25 with a range of special needs including epilepsy, the opportunity to develop the skills needed to move towards adulthood, long term supported independent living and a more fulfilled lifestyle. The College brings together learning, housing, care and health into a holistic programme and a lifestyle experience which mirrors that to which the learners might aspire. 37 Students are tenants of Housing Associations in Much Hadham or Bishops Stortford with rights and responsibilities as tenants at the heart of their learning. We now offer a non-residential Vocational Day Programme individualised for each learner.

The Curriculum:
The innovatory nature of the transition programmes at the College is fully reflected in the style of the curriculum and its delivery. Living and learning are seamless and learners ‘learn by doing’. The learning is based on real situations in their everyday lives such as shopping, meal preparation, home management and sports and leisure structured to develop independence skills. The College provides an extensive vocational programme including social enterprises and external work placements. Learning is accredited at Entry Level 1, 2 and 3 through OCR Life and Living Skills.

Specialist Facilities:
There is high quality provision of therapeutic input into the curriculum including speech and language, clinical psychology, physiotherapy, multi-sensory and drama.

Statements:

1. expertise in working with students who have specific learning difficulties
2. expertise in working with learners with epilepsy and/or associated neurological conditions
3. expertise in supporting learners with a wide range of physical disabilities
4. nursing services available 24 hours a day
5. waking night residential staff
6. opportunities to work towards qualifications within Foundation Learning
7. a transition programme into independent living
8. help with negotiating suitable long term provision
9. opportunities to experience real work situations
10. opportunities to improve literacy, numeracy and/or communication skills
11. opportunities to improve Information and learning technology skills
12. a work placement scheme with local employers
13. opportunities to take part in a wide range of social, leisure and sporting activities
14. in-house speech and language therapy
15. in-house physiotherapy
16. in-house psychology services
17. an occupational therapy programme