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Janet Price
Janet Price and Jack Holliday started Concept Training to provide independent training and advice on how to create and use multi-sensory
rooms. Together, they set out to devise a practical, informative and objective programme that would help people build their confidence, understand more about what could be achieved, and take home concrete ideas and suggestions.
Today, Concept Training is one of the country's leading providers of training for anyone living and working with sensory impaired and special needs children, young people and adults, and the original concept remains to provide practical, independent and hands-on training that delegates can put straight into practice when they get back to work. |
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OUR TRAINERS
At Concept Training the people who deliver our courses are carefully chosen - not just for their specialised experience and knowledge, but also for their ability to share it in an innovative and motivational way.
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Sally Slater
Sally is an educational professional who was formerly head teacher of a residential special school. She is experienced in management, teaching and training within most areas of special educational needs in mainstream and special educational settings, and adult residential care. Her specialisms include autism, challenging behaviour, severe and profound learning difficulties and dyspraxia. |
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Phoebe Caldwell
Phoebe has spent more than 25 years working with people with severe learning disabilities and autism. As well as training therapists, teachers, support staff and managers, she is the author of five books: 'Getting
to know each other', 'Person to person', 'You don't know what it's like', 'Crossing the minefield' and 'Finding you, finding me'. |
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Judy Denziloe
Following work for Save the Children developing and managing a mobile training resource on play and leisure, Judy was the Director of Action for Leisure, the national charity promoting play and leisure for disabled people. She has a particular interest in sensory work for all age groups, play and leisure for children and adults with profound and multiple disabilities and issues such as choice, risk and age-appropriateness in play. Judy is a qualified trainer and the author of various publications including ?Fun and Games?. |
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Janet Gurney
Janet is Chief Executive of 'Us in a Bus' a voluntary organisation that uses social interaction and leisure to build relationships with people with profound learning difficulties and complex needs including autism and challenging behaviour. Janet has been using Intensive Interaction in this work for over 15 years to establish common ground with people who are often isolated, helping them to have more of an impact on their world. She is a qualified trainer and also works as a consultant for organisations wanting to improve the way they connect with their service users. |
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Eric Klein
With 30 years experience as a practicing musician, composer, conductor, teacher and consultant, Eric has worked with special needs clients ranging from young children to the elderly. He now delivers workshops to a variety of organisations, focusing on issues such as communication, team building and leadership using the performing arts. |
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Colin Troy
Colin is an experienced educationalist with over twenty five years teaching experience, eight of which were as Head of two special schools. He is now a consultant, trainer and lecturer specializing in pupils and students of all ages with special educational needs. Colin has also run workshops for students to develop self esteem, behaviour management and other PSHE issues.
He has recently worked with the UN Development Fund promoting awareness on special needs issues (2007) and was a keynote speaker at the International Schools Conference in Prague (2006). He is an assessor for the Inclusion Quality Mark and acts as an advisor to Local Authorities on inclusion issues. |
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Helen Wood
Helen is Head of Sensory and Communication at a residential school for young people with autism and associated challenging behaviour. She is a principal instructor in PROACT-SCIPr-UK, a holistic method of managing challenging behaviour with emphasis on proactive support strategies and person-centred approaches, and provides training in autism, communication and sensory approaches. |
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Clare Grace
Clare Grace is a Speech and Language Therapist working with both children and adults with a wide range of communication disorders and specialises in working with individuals on the autistic spectrum and also with individuals who have challenging behaviour. Clare runs an independent speech and language therapy practice in the North West of England. She delivers assessment, therapy and advice in homes, schools and communities. Clare also has a special interest in developing alternative and augmentative communication systems for people with no or little speech. |
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Nigel Haslam
Nigel has over 30 years experience in education, 26 years in special education with 15 years as Headteacher. Nigel has specialised in working with young people who experience emotional and behavioural difficulties in both day and residential schools, care settings, and including secure accommodation. |
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Andy Meller
Andy has held a variety of jobs in education, including those of Head Teacher, advisor to Local Authorities, National Literacy Strategy Consultant and Coach/Mentor to newly appointed Heads. Currently in his second Headship, he successfully led his first school out of serious weaknesses and into Category 1 'beacon' status within 3 years.
Described as both innovative and inspirational by colleagues who have attended his courses, Andy is able to convey key messages in an engaging and entertaining manner. His training days are designed to leave participants feeling re-energised and to provide them with a range of practical skills and tools that can be used immediately back in school |
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Stephanie Lord
Stephanie has worked in the field of Autism since 1980, and was previously a teacher in mainstream education, she became Headteacher in 1986 and developed both day and residential provision in 3 separate schools. Stephanie became Principal of Education and Children’s Services in 2002.
Stephanie has taught and lectured about Autism in Australia, South Africa, Kuwait, Tunisia, Finland, Belgium and Romania and has been associated as and educational tutor with Birmingham University, Oxford Books University and the Institute of Education. Currently Stephanie is organising a distance-learning programme in Autism for the Kuwait Centre for Autism. Stephanie holds a number of positions acting as Chairperson of Associations for educational groups and voluntary organisations. |
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Morag Scally
Morag Scally is a performing arts specialist working with children and adults with a wide range of learning disabilities. She specialises in working with people with autism and challenging behaviours using music and drama. Morag also delivers training and consultancy for people working with those with a learning disability supporting the development of arts practice in community and education contexts. She is a visiting lecturer at The University of Winchester and mentors young artists joining the profession. |
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Pam Edis
Pam is a dedicated, enthusiastic teacher with strong motivational and interpersonal skills, she has devoted her career to developing and enhancing the educational and social potential of pupils with diverse needs and continues to make a significant contribution in this area.
Currently Pam is working at North Ridge High School having been seconded there in September 07 to establish the outreach to mainstream high schools in North Manchester. |
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Stella Hopcyn
Stella has a passion for providing high quality learning opportunities for all stages and ages. Her professional life has spanned 29 working years and has experience of assessment for learning to inform planning systems, and management procedures within mainstream, special educational needs and adult education. |
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Stuart Sorensen
As well as his extensive experience of working and training in general social care topics Stuart has personally trained approximately 3,000 workers nationwide on the Mental Capacity Act for Residential and Nursing homes, Housing Associations, Borough and County Councils and statutory bodies such as the NHS or Social Services Departments. |
Concept Training is one of the country's leading providers of training offering a wide range of VALUE FOR MONEY training programmes for anyone working or living with Children, Young People and Adults with Special Needs, Learning Disability, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Asperger's Syndrome, Sensory Impairment, Challenging Behaviour, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties. |
