The best prephonics courses for special needs teachers and TAs
Looking for courses for special needs teachers and TAs that will have a MASSIVE impact on your students?
This course is tailor-made for staff working with students with complex learning needs or PMLD.
With various delivery options, these prephonics courses for special needs teachers and TAs provide the only available stage, rather than age-based, small steps prephonics training.
These are action-packed, practical, and informative courses, including everything you need to
support your students spectacularly well!
Prephonic development builds critical foundations before every phonics programme.
This requires more than Letters and Sounds Phase 1.
Our SEN students need a step-by-step, practical approach to hearing, making, seeing, and showing an awareness of sounds before introducing the alphabetic code.
This is the only SEN training course that will show you how!
The only prephonics SEN training course for your students!
Is this SEN training right for you?
Are you a special school leader looking for an engaging, multi-sensory approach that builds consistency and a systematic approach around what you already do?
Are you new to working with PMLD students or those with complex learning difficulties?
If so, you probably want to know where to start and what prephonics should look like.
Are you an experienced special school practitioner searching for up-to-date, reliable information about prephonics expectations for students working within an engagement model?
Are you new to special education and want an instant introduction to what comes before phonics and how this differs from mainstream, structured phonics programmes?
If the answer’s “YES”, this Prephonics SEN training is for you.
Courses for special needs teachers and TAs you can trust
What you'll learn
- What comes before Phonics
- Why prephonic activities help our students
- Up-to-date expectations and best practice examples
- How prephonics fits into the broader reading agenda
- How to identify and manage prephonic development for students with spiky development profiles
- How to address common misconceptions about prephonics and show small steps in progress
- Easily adaptable practical activities matched to prephonic developmental steps
- How to build on Letters and Sounds Phase 1 and systematise things you already do
These Prephonics courses for special needs teachers and TAs include...
However you choose to access the Prephonics courses for special needs teachers and TAs, you’ll get all the specialist guidance, information and practical ideas you need.
You’ll receive:
- Step-by-step, engaging delivery from an expert trainer
- Slides and a workbook that make learning manageable
- Instant, multi-sensory activity ideas
- Super simple ideas for organisation and adaptations
- The ultimate prephonics tracking tool, tried and tested with students like yours.
- Opportunities to reflect and develop practice
Professional Learning Partners
Meet your trainer
A specialist in prephonics courses for sen teaching assistants and teachers
Hello! My name’s Emma Spiers, The Learning Lady.
I am an author and special school advisor, and special school governor, specialising in early language and literacy development.
For over a decade I’ve been inspiring teaching and improving learning, with an evidence-based approach to learning and engagement.
Sharing the most up-to-date information in a practical and accessible way is my thing.
I created these specialist prephonics courses for special needs teachers and TAs like you!
I can’t wait to share these super simple and successful strategies that actually work with students like yours!
Other special needs courses for teachers and TAs don't include this...
Understanding prephonic development and navigating the journey our students take is complex.
With spiky profiles and a wide array of sensory needs, we need a super simple system accessible to everyone to demonstrate progress.
Other special needs courses for teachers and TAS don’t always specialise in small steps of progress.
But these prephonics courses do.
Are they right for you?
Here’s a sneak peek into the tried and tested small steps progression included in this training.
Free Download for SEN practitioners everywhere!
Choosing prephonics courses for special needs teachers and TAs
For the flexibility you need, there are two ways to access prephonics courses for special needs teachers and TAs.
Join Us Online!
This course is available as a live online webinar that only runs twice each year.
It’s a course delivered over 2 twilight online sessions.
These are recorded, and attendees receive 6 months’ access.
Each hourly session makes learning manageable. There’s plenty of interaction and practical application ideas to try straight away.
Places are limited, so attendees get all their questions answered!
Next Course Dates: 15th and 22nd September 2025
Location: Zoom
Cost per person: £15.99
Book this bespoke prephonics SEN training for your organisation
Have a lot of staff who need prephonics sen training?
Need to develop a consistent approach that’s adaptable whilst preparing students for a structured phonics programme?
Want to develop an engaging and developmental approach that’s tailor-made for your students?
Booking a full-day, bespoke training is a great option.
Use the contact form below to describe what you need.
We’ll plan a bespoke package together via Zoom, on a date that’s best for your team.
Dates get snapped up quickly, so don’t delay!
