As well as delivering the best possible education, we also have a clinical team who provide care and therapy to benefit the children and young people in our school.
Our Clinical Teams consist of skilled speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and psychotherapists. Support from the Meadows View School Clinical Team will be delivered at 3 levels:
- Universal Offer – This is where the Clinical and Wellbeing Team can support further around the creation and maintenance of a therapeutic inclusive environment, universal resources and school team support and development through bespoke training and reflective practice.
- Enhanced Offer – This is where the Clinical and Wellbeing Team members are involved with individual young people, primarily indirectly through working closely with the team around the young person. Offering highly specialist consultation and formulation. The clinical team work directly with staff team to develop a shared understanding of the young person, their strengths and their needs. This ensures that we deliver the highest quality provision which maximises each person’s quality of life and personal achievements.
- Specialist offer – This is where clinicians have identified the need for direct involvement with a young person based on assessment, consultation and young persons expressed views. This will be in addition to involvement described as part of the enhanced offer of support. This offer may involve one clinicians having direct one to one sessions with the young person and/or several members of the clinical team
working together.
Our clinicians will always work closely with clinical colleagues in our local communities as required.
Within Options Autism we have developed a Neurodiversity ‘AAD’ Strategy which aims to strengthen and continually progress our approach to the provision of education services to Neurodivergent young people in an environment which is conducive to their strength and needs. Our AAD (Ask, Accept, Develop) strategy recognises that despite underlying shared traits, all our students are vastly different from one another, for example each Autistic student is unique.
Working alongside our ‘AAD Strategy is also our a Trauma Informed Practice (TIP) Strategy to educate and support individuals in understanding the impact of trauma on a child’s early experiences, the subsequent internal world they have developed, and how this relates to the survival skills or behaviours they have developed.