Integrated Services - Specialist Support (ISSS)
The Lodge,
Bridgewater House,
Blackpole Road,
Worcester,
WR4 9GG
01905 765849
Who are we?
Integrated Services - Specialist Support (ISSS
(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

Please also see:
This will include support for:
The Hearing Impairment Team (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.
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The Visual Impairment Team (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.
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The Multi-Sensory Impairment Team (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.
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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
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The Complex Communication Difficulties/Autism Team (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.
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The Assistive ICT & Alternative and Augmentative Communication Team (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.
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The Further & Higher Education Team (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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Page Information:Last modification: 09:59:16, 06th January, 2009 by
Jane Farrell Review date: 24th January, 2008