Falkland House School Perth has a dedicated, on-site clinical team that works with both our education and care teams, and directly with young people to create an environment to removes barriers to learning and enables young people to thrive.
Our clinical team is made up of a Psychotherapist, Educational Psychologist, Occupational Therapist and Speech & Language Therapist. The clinical team work with a multidisciplinary approach to achieve the best outcomes for our young people. All our clinical interventions and methods are trauma informed and neurodiverse affirmative.
Speech and Language Therapists work with children and young people who may find it difficult to express or understand written or spoken language. It also supports communication and social skills to help independent daily living in a neurodiverse affirming approach.
Occupational Therapists support children and young people to participate independently in activities of daily living. Occupational Therapists support children with physical, motor skills, socio-emotional, perceptual or sensory difficulties that impact on these occupations. Occupations for children and young people include: Self-care and independent living skills, school work or being productive and leisure activities.
Psychotherapists work with students who sometimes feel sad, angry, frustrated or confused. They try to work out, with the person, why this may be happening and how to deal with their emotion and behaviours. They can do this by working 1:1 with students at the school in scheduled therapy sessions.
Educational Psychologists work in partnership with children and young people, families, school, care, and other services to help identify barriers to learning to create inclusive and accessible learning environments.
All children joining Falkland House Schools will be part of our clinical pathway, which includes an initial 12-week period of observation. This is used together with any additional assessments, input from family, key staff, and relevant professionals to form the basis of an initial clinical plan.
Following their assessment, the level of clinical provision is determined as one of the following:
Universal: Clinicians support the creation of a positive environment for learning and living, promote a neurodiverse affirmative approach across the school and residential setting and embed trauma informed practice across the service.
Enhanced: Clinician or clinical assistant led group work, training specific to the needs of our young people and supporting staff to work with a whole class approach
Specialist: Specialist Assessment and intervention carried out by registered clinicians from Educational Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Psychotherapy
Clinical input is integrated into the young person’s planning tool and regular review collaborating with the young person and key staff will take place to ensure our pupils achieve their goals and potential.