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Integrated Services - Specialist Support (ISSS)

The Lodge,
Bridgewater House,
Blackpole Road,
Worcester,
WR4 9GG

01905 765849

Who are we?

Integrated Services - Specialist Support (ISSS This is a link to a PDF file. (97.66 KB)) is a department within Childrens Services, formerly known as LID/MET.

ISSS is a specialist teaching service which offers support to parents, carers, early years settings and schools, on a range of needs

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This will include support for:

The Hearing Impairment Team This is a link to a PDF file. (56.86 KB) supports children and students who are Deaf and hearing impaired. We provide:

  • audiological and educational advice as well as a peripatetic teaching service
  • strategies to develop and promote independence.

The Visual Impairment Team This is a link to a PDF file. (74.63 KB) supports children, pupils and students with:

  • a visual impairment which cannot be corrected by glasses and provides strategies to develop & promote independent learning.

The Multi-Sensory Impairment Team This is a link to a PDF file. (57.43 KB) supports children and pupils who are:

  • deafblind and have a combination of vision/hearing loss, which creates a unique pattern of learning difficulties or who have substantial developmental delay in responding to sensory stimuli
  • Pupils with a sensory loss and additional disabilities.

The Medical Education Team supports pupils with:

  • medical difficulties which prevent them from attending school and which are evidenced by a written request for support from a medical consultant
  • Service information This is a link to a PDF file. (56.85 KB)

The Complex Communication Difficulties/Autism Team This is a link to a PDF file. (56.42 KB) supports pupils and students with:

  • complex communication difficulties, or an autism spectrum condition, primarily in mainstream school environments, at the Action Plus and Statemented stage of the SEN Code of Practice.

The Assistive ICT & Alternative and Augmentative Communication Team This is a link to a PDF file. (60.27 KB) supports pupils with:

  • limited verbal communication where an augmentative communication system may be appropriate
  • a severe difficulty in recording text, diagrams or pictures, which may warrant the use of assistive ICT.

The Further & Higher Education Team This is a link to a PDF file. (55.98 KB) supports post 16 learners with:

  • a sensory impairment or autistic spectrum disorder, in colleges throughout Worcestershire and other counties, via college service agreements or the individual disabled students allowance.

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Last modification: 09:59:16, 06th January, 2009 by Jane Farrell
Review date: 24th January, 2008
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