Staff Interest and Training

Target audience: Early years teachers, primary teachers, secondary teachers, practitioners

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) affects 7.5% of school age children. DLD is a condition that impacts children's oral language, but these children can also have problems with their mental health, sleep, literacy, and emotion recognition. Children with DLD may also mask their difficulties, making them harder for professionals to spot. 

Through this collection of short videos, DLD researchers at the University of York put wellbeing in DLD under the spotlight. 

Target audience: Anyone supporting children and young people 

Mental health challenges among children and young people are on the rise, and early support can make a lasting difference. This self-paced online course (4 hours/week; 3 weeks) empowers professionals to recognise mental health concerns and respond effectively with practical, evidence-informed strategies. 

This course was developed by academics at the University of York and funded by the Royal College of Nursing Foundation. It is free to access at any time (paid certification available). 

Target audience: Primary teachers; Secondary teachers; Educational psychologists; Career advisors 

This is a short talk (30 minutes) on the psychology and neuroscience of learning and memory and their implications for classroom learning from the perspective of academics involved in fundamental research but who still thinks teachers know best. The idea is to prompt discussion (e.g., 30 minutes) on what neuroscience can and can't tell us and where we should look for answers. 

This is an in-person session available to SUNRAY schools upon request.