 SHIPS offers dynamic assessment of the classroom behaviour of children and young people who have sustained an acquired brain injury (ABI), with a report of the student’s learning style, strengths and weaknesses and recommendations of how to manage their learning.
Appropriate assessment may identify the child’s unaffected areas of retained knowledge and help to define complex learning problems that may be experienced, which will assist teachers to formulate appropriate differentiation and compensatory strategies for the pupil in the classroom.
SHIPS is also available to answer more general questions about acquired brain injury (ABI) and to refer schools to other professionals and agencies where this is necessary.
SHIPS is also available to assist in the transition between different schools. For parents this would ensure continuity of provision over this anxious time, for the pupil there would be a familiar person to talk to and for teacher’s advice about handling learning needs which are generally invisible.
What can SHIPS do for the young person?
The results of a head injury are often invisible. SHIPS will give young people with a brain injury a friend and advocate from within the education system.
What can SHIPS do for parents?
SHIPS will also support parents and carers in their role, providing a link between the hospital and the school.
Who can SHIPS help?
The Kids Head Injury Study (KHIS) refers pupils to SHIPS for support in school, but SHIPS may be able to help if you are not involved with KHIS. Parents, teachers, educational psychologists and speech therapists have all made successful referrals to SHIPS.
Intervention from SHIPS involves classroom observation, a report for teachers and parents and access to the helpline, with follow up if considered necessary. This costs £300 per annum (2007 figure) and could be written into a child's statement of special educational needs or may be available from a legal settlement.
However, as SHIPS is a charity within the North Bristol NHS Charitable Trust, grants to the full value of the cost are available each year for those who do not have other support. Please contact SHIPS to discuss what is available. However there is always a cost to the charity and we encourage donations or fundraising for SHIPS. Click here to view specific costs.
SHIPS is based in Bristol, England, and can only assist children within one hours travelling distance of Bristol. This may be further than you imagine as the roads around Bristol are good. We can certainly help as far south as Taunton, west as far as Newport in South Wales, north to Cheltenham and east to Swindon. We may also be able to make a one off visit for one school day to places up to 2 hours from the SHIPS base. This would include Exeter, Carmarthen and Weymouth.
I live outside the area for SHIPS.... where else may I obtain help?
There are a number of charities which may be able to help. Click here for a list
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