TRAINING COURSES IN 2010
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 9.15am until 4.45pm each day.
For an application form please download here or call us on 0207 530 4238. Charitably funded training courses are available for UK therapists only (one funded course per therapist)
Palin Parent-Child Interaction therapy for pre-school children who stammer
9th to 11th June 2010 (3 days) Cost:FREE (charitably funded, excluding cost of manual). FULLY BOOKED.
27th to 29th September 2010 (3 days) FULLY BOOKED
Cost £150 including the manual Practical Intervention for Early Childhood Stammering: Palin PCI Approach by Elaine Kelman & Alison Nicholas (2008)
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29th November to 1st December 2010 (3 days) NEW DATE!!!
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
10th March 2010 (1 day) Cost:FREE (charitably funded excluding cost of manual if needed) SPACES available
11th October 2010 (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
This course focuses on the Primary years from 6 years of age.
24th to 26th May 2010 (3 days) Cost:FREE (charitably funded) FULLY BOOKED
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Secondary school children who stammer: realising their potential
7th to 9th July 2010 (3 days) Cost £120
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An introduction to Brief Therapy
3rd November 2010 (1day) Cost £40
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Research and its application to clinical practice
12th & 13th October 2010 (2 days) Cost: FREE (charitably funded) SPACES available
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Building skills in speech management
14th & 15th October 2010 (2 days) Cost £80
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An introduction to Cognitive Therapy
15th to 17th November 2010 (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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Research Programmes
