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type of service
The Hope Centre provides services for children and young people (aged 3-19 years) with a wide range of learning disabilities and special educational needs. Using the unique methodology devised by Professor Reuven Feuerstein, tuition is either on a one-to-one basis or in small groups.
Services Offered Include:
- Thinking skills programmes
- Specialist assessments including dynamic assessment
- Occupational and speech therapy
- Training packages for professionals and parents.
Occupational Therapy:
An occupational therapist will look at the underlying skills needed to perform a specific task to see whether there are any problems affecting performance.
Speech & Language Therapy:
Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs), work with students who have difficulties communicating (Communication Therapist).
Therapy may be carried out through floor-play, structured games and activities.
Dynamic Assessments:
The Learning Propensity Assessment Device (LPAD). Is a specialised assessment technique which measures potential rather than what the child can't do.
Intensive intervention:
Individual and group sessions using MLE (Mediated Learning Experience).
Outreach services:
To local schools, including workshops and Parent Child Interaction services.
Instrumental Enrichment (IE):
A structured thinking skills programme which strengthens cognitive functions (building blocks of learning), creating more flexible and efficient thinkers.
Courses in IE1, IE2, LPAD and Bright Start (A cognitive programme for younger years).
Insets and seminars especially designed for LSAs, parents and carers.
other activities
Facilities include:
• Sensory integration room
• Fully equipped art room – (Mediated Learning through Art activities)
• Cognitive motor studio – (Dance Movement Therapy)
• Two-way observation rooms
• Computer room
• Conference Room
• Outdoor play area
• Life-skills training kitchen
• Family room
• Medical room
• Full access for wheelchair users
• Lecture / training room
• Car Park
Access
opening times - Monday - Friday. catchment area - Brent, Barnet, Camden, Hertfordshire, Stamford Hill. age limit - 3-19. accessibility - wheelchair access , disabled toilets
referral - self-referral accepted, gp referral accepted, mental health worker referral accepted
background information on this organisation
The Hope Centre for Cognitive Education was opened in 1996 by British parents of children with special needs who had received help from educational psychologist Professor Reuven Feuerstein’s Jerusalem-based Institute. Their aim was to create a centre of excellence in the UK to enable children with learning difficulties to reach their full potential through the Feuerstein methodology as well as to provide training courses for professionals, parents and carers in the use of Feuerstein’s techniques.
In May 2008 the Hope Charity joined Norwood’s umbrella of children and family services. The expertise provided by Hope will complement Norwood's Binoh service, as well as Norwood's planned involvement with the Special Education Resource Unit at JCoSS.
Reuven Feuerstein’s methodology is based on the belief that every individual’s learning capacity can be enhanced throughout life. His theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability holds that every human being is capable of change beyond their present level of functioning, despite barriers which have been traditionally regarded as insurmountable such as age, the cause of the condition or its severity.
