Sensory Team
Tel: 01709 813386
Sensory Occupational Therapist
Jo Helas
Email - jhelas@nexusmat.org
Jo can provide specialist sensory integration assessments and therapy.
Jo will be working with students to identify ways to overcome their sensory difficulties and put in place activities and programmes to help them respond more effectively.
She will also provide training to teachers and families to help them by provide ongoing support.
Sensory Integration
Scott Walker
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Ruth Bryant
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Scott & Ruth will be following the assessments and suggestions from Jo and running one to one sensory sessions for individuals. They will also be running sensory circuits in the morning’s for whole classes.
Scott and Ruth can help by suggesting ways to help with sensory issues in class and at home.
Scott and Ruth can help by suggesting ways to help with sensory issues in class and at home.
Intensive Interaction
Gav Roberts
Email: groberts@nexusmat.org
Gav runs one to one sessions in intensive interaction and also works with class teams to
enable intensive interaction to happen in class.
Intensive interaction is an approach for teaching communication skills to children and adults
who have autism, severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple learning difficulties
who are still at early stages of development.
The approach focuses on teaching the Fundamentals of Communication – the communication concepts and performances that precede speech development.
Though it may include many people who have some speech and language development.
enable intensive interaction to happen in class.
Intensive interaction is an approach for teaching communication skills to children and adults
who have autism, severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple learning difficulties
who are still at early stages of development.
The approach focuses on teaching the Fundamentals of Communication – the communication concepts and performances that precede speech development.
Though it may include many people who have some speech and language development.