Key Focus 

Helping school staff improve children’s communication, understanding, learning, and classroom participation through practical, evidence‑based strategies. This course helps you to navigate Speech Therapy approaches such as Colourful Semantics, Blanks Levels, visual timetables, ICWs and Phonological Awareness.  

The course is externally accredited through OCN London, level 2 or 3. KHDA points pending.  

Key Concepts / Goals 

• Understand what communication is and how it develops.  

• Learn strategies to support attention, listening, and understanding.  

• Improve social communication, vocabulary, memory, and independent learning.  

• Support expressive language, clear speech, and narrative skills.  

• Build confidence working with children with a wide range of communication needs.  

• This course is the first step towards achieving Elklan’s Communication Friendly Setting accreditation. If this something your setting would like to work towards, please get in contact for more information. 

Course Details 

📅 Starts: Monday 31st of August 2026 4-5pm GST for 10 weeks. No session during mid-term (19th of October) and last session on 9th of November.  

💰 Cost: 2000 AED 

This includes OCN accreditation, access to e-learning, live webinars, individualised feedback on learning, Language Builders Digital Manual. KHDA certificate additional 150aed (optional).
Each week you will:  

1. Access weekly E-learning each focusing on a different area of speech, language and communication.  
2. Join weekly Live Webinars to discuss and reflect on E-learning with an Elklan Tutor support (Mondays 4pm on Teams)
3. Complete weekly Learning Logs to achieve OCN accreditation. This involves reflective practice, practical strategies and case studies based on the children you support.  

Commitment  

• E-learning tasks are between 45-60 minutes and can be accessed anytime 

• Live tutor sessions are 60 minutes and mandatory to receive accreditation.  

• Learnings logs must be completely within your own time. Some tasks differ in length and complexity depending on level 2 or 3 being completed so the time. Written work in English and a device is required for these to be completed.