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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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Laura Blake
Laura worked for five years for ‘Us In A Bus’, a voluntary organisation using social interaction to build relationships with people with profound and multiple disabilities. She qualified as a trainer and went on to complete an MA on socially interactive approaches. She is also a qualified primary teacher. |
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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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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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Les Staves
Drawing on his background of teaching in mainstream and special schools for over 30 years, Les provides training sessions and workshops for schools and LEAs across the country relating to mathematics for very special pupils. He has also provided advice, written materials and presented at conferences for The National Numeracy Strategy and QCA. |
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Marvyn Moore
Maryvn is an appointed Ofsted Inspector and Accredited Trainer who has participated in over 250 inspections to date. He is an Inspector for Early Years, Nursery, Special Education, Pupil Referral Units and Primary and Secondary Education, specialising in SMSC, PHSE and Inclusion. Marvyn is also an Appointed section 33 Visitor/Inspector for Barnardos Residential Schools. |
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Maggie Weber
Building on 40 years experience in the field, Maggie is now an Early Years tutor and trainer. Maggie’s passion and expertise lies in empowering learners with the confidence, resources and rationale required for working with music, story and games to promote inclusion and children’s personal social and emotional development in early years settings. |
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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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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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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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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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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. |
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. |
