News

• Free Parents Seminar
  To accompany our Autism course in March we are offering a free parents seminar. Please see our training pages for details here
  
  
• It is with some regret that we have had to cancel our Sensory Feeding course taking place next month. It you are interested in attending this course please email us as we will be trying to re-schedule it for early next year.
  
• Brooklands School's 2012 calendar out now. Please contact us for a copy.
  
• Our latest newsletter is out now.
• See us in OTnews, our TalkTools Sensory Feeding course is advertised in the CPD events section.


• ICAN has launched a free helpline, 'I CAN help' is open to anyone who may be concerned about a child's talking listening or understanding. The service provides a call from an SLT to give information on typical development, specific difficulties and resources available. To book a call telephone 020 7843 2544 9 to 5 Monday to Friday, or visit the ICAN website


• March 2012 21st to 25th , two of our UK based TalkTools tutors will be doing their level 4 TalkTools accreditation under the tuition of Renee Roy-Hill. Slots are available for TalkTools Evals with this group of experts. Venue near Gatwick, London. Please contact us for more details.


• March 19th 2012 Free parents seminar introducing the course "Teaching Speech to Non Verbal Individuals with Autism" 7.00pm to 8.30pm. Venue near Gatwick, London. Booking essential.

If you are interested in attending some TalkTools training, we have Sensory Feeding running in February next year.

• Well done Helen and Amy who this month passed their TalkTools Level 3.
• We are now stocking more Ark Therapeutic products, including Fine tips and coloured Z-vibes. For all your TalkTools equipment needs, visit our website at www.eg-training.co.uk or email us at info@eg-training.co.uk.

Therapy Tips
Introducing the new Horn#0.
This horn requires less airflow than Horn#1, so makes a great starter before going on to the Original Horn Hierarchy.
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Flavours / scents are great for sensory stimulation
The use of sour flavours in the mouth is alerting and will help with cheek and lip tension and can reduce saliva production - try lemon grabber The use of sweet flavours in the mouth is relaxing - try chocolate or vanilla grabber
The deep pressure input given by chewing (particularly the input to the tempero-mandibular joint) can help to balance arousal and alertness levels, and can help with attention and concentration. Couple this with a flavoured grabber for extra calming (sweet) or arousing ( sour) effect.
Low tone / hyposensitive people in particular find more intense flavours to be stimulating.
Use of a favourite flavour is motivating to encourage acceptance of the tool in the mouth - we particularly like the chocolate flavour grabber!
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Slow Feed food suggestions:
Sweet: Mikado chocolate biscuits.
Savoury: Chipsticks.

Jaw grading bite blocks: If stage A is unachievable, place 2 bite blocks in bilaterally, but only apply the resistance to one block. When this is achieved, go back and try stage A again.

When using bubbles with a student, keep the wand at their mouth height to avoid flexion in the neck.

What we do

Eg (Training) Ltd deliver a personalized and responsive service to support individuals with communication or swallowing needs to become confident, independent and healthy individuals. We provide independent speech and language therapy, specialist training services and therapeutic resources for families, education and health professionals.

Eg (Training) Ltd provide independent speech and language therapy, specialist training services and therapeutic resources for families, education and health professionals. In particular we provide TalkTools training, equipment and specialist therapists.

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