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About Elklan
Elklan was established in 1999 by two experienced speech and language therapists Liz Elks and Henrietta McLachlan in response to a demand for training to be delivered by speech and language therapists to education staff to enable them to be more effective in their support of children with speech, language and communication need (SLCN).
Over a period of 11 years Elklan has trained over 1,200 speech and language therapists to be Elklan tutors and over 550 specialist advisory teachers to work in a co-tutor role. Most of the trainers work in the UK but in recent years we have an increasing number of tutors in Ireland, Australia, Luxembourg and The Falkland Islands.
Our hugely successful Train the Trainer programme has enabled training to be cascaded to over 20,000 staff working in pre-school, primary and secondary education in both mainstream and specialist settings as well as parents.
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Elklan works best when therapists and specialist teachers work together although most commonly therapists will train on their own with excellent results. In exceptional circumstances specialist teachers can deliver the training without the support of a speech and language therapist.
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We want to enable our tutors to run a wide range of courses, we therefore only ask you to train once and then as a tutor you can buy the additional training manuals for only £75. This means that if you move jobs or work with a variety of ages you can train the course that suits you and your staff best.
All our courses are externally accredited through Open College Network South West (OCNSWR) which makes them extremely valuable to employers and employees. Staff can achieve success at either levels 2 or 3 and parents and carers can study at level 1 on our very popular Lets talk range of courses.
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All our courses are well recieved and effective - read evaluation reports, testimonials, or hear the views of practitioners.